Lucasta

English
"pure light"

Lucasta Origin and Meaning

The name Lucasta is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "pure light".

Lucasta was invented by seventeenth century poet Richard Lovelace for a collection of poems dedicated to a lover named Lucy, and is familiar through the Eugene O'Neill play and film Anna Lucasta. Lucasta is a distinctive, rarely used choice and a logical extension of the Luke/Luc/Luca names.

Famous People Named Lucasta

  • Lucasta Frances Elizabeth Miller
    English literary critic and journalist

Lucasta in Pop Culture

  • Lucasta Angel
    Sir Claude Mulhammer's bastard daughter who marries Barnabas Kaghan, in T. S. Eliot's "The Confidential Clerk" (1954)
  • "Anna Lucasta
    " play by Philip Yordan inspired by Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie"