Lucille

French variation of Latin Lucilla

"light"

Lucille Origin and Meaning

The name Lucille is a girl's name of French origin meaning "light".

Lucille is a name that had long been overpowered by its link to Lucille Ball, with an image of tangerine-colored hair, big, round eyes, and a tendency to stage daffy and desperate stunts. But with the newfound craze for double-L names like Lily and Lila, Lulu and Luna, and as the choice of Lucille by hipster parents Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson, Lucille is breaking free from its old clownish image, moving rapidly up the charts over the past decade after a long nap.

Lucille has a history that far predates Lucille Ball and the 1950s. It was well used by Christians of the Roman Empire and began to be used in the U.K. and the U.S. in the nineteenth century, making it one of the most classic names for girls. Reaching as high as Number 27 on the popular names list of 1919—when there was a vogue for French sounding names like Marguerite and Genevieve—Lucille stayed in the Top 40 from 1906 to 1924. This was followed by an almost thirty-year slump starting in 1977, when it fell off the list completely, only to return in 2003.

Lucille Rank in US Top 1000

# 285 in the US

Lucille Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 383 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Lucille

• 285 US 2023
• 383 Nameberry 2025
• 160 Future 2028

20 Names Similar to Lucille

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Famous People Named Lucille

• Lucille Désirée Ball American actress and comedienne
• Lucille Fay LeSueur birth name of Joan Crawford, American actress
• Lucille Theresa Bliss American actress
• Lucille Elsa Roybal Allard, U.S. Congresswoman from California
• Lucille Frances "Lucy" Lawless New Zealand actress
• Karen Lucille "Lucy" Hale American actress
• Lucille Mulhall American cowgirl and Wild West performer
• Lucille Lortel American actress
• Lucille Maree Hamilton Australian basketball player
• Lucille Loretta Wall American actress
• Lucille Opitz German speed skater
• Lucille Clifton American poet
• (Violet) Lucille Fletcher American screenwriter
• Lucille Soong American actress
• Lucille Marie Raymonde (Savoie) Starr Canadian singer
• Lucille Ricksen (born Ingeborg Myrtle Elisabeth Ericksen) American actress
• Lucille Anderson (b. 2009) daughter of actress Maya Rudolph and director Paul Thomas Anderson
• Mary "Lucille" Diana Hanson (b. 2016) daughter of American pop rock singer Zac Hanson
• Lucille Ruby Odom (b. 2017) daughter of actor Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson

The name Lucille in Pop Culture

• Lucille Bluth and Lustille Austero characters on TV's "Arrested Development"
• Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt character in the Peanuts series
• Lucille Hewitt character on British soap "Coronation Street"
• Lucille March Weeks character on American soap "General Hospital"
• Lucille the Rubber Freak character in Lily Tomlin's sketches
• Lucille character in movie "Kingdom Come"
• Lucille character in the Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
• Lucille Negan's bat on 'The Walking Dead'
• Lucille Little Richard song (1957)
• Lucille Kenny Rogers song (1977)
• Lucille name of B.B. King's guitars
• Lucille B.B. King song (1985)
• Lucille Sharpe character in movie "Crimson Peak"