Lucero
#1,512 for girls in 2025, 141 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 97.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 334 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,729since 1961
Lucero over time
Rank among girls' names. Lucero has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,512 | 141 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,465 | 150 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,490 | 146 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,641 | 127 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,649 | 125 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,740 | 119 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,520 | 143 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,591 | 137 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,628 | 134 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,814 | 115 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,684 | 125 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,391 | 166 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,405 | 164 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,217 | 197 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,136 | 215 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #1,045 | 249 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,076 | 243 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #957 | 284 | — | |
| 2006 | #974 | 268 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #968 | 254 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #1,252 | 173 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,126 | 195 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,034 | 209 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,127 | 186 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,065 | 194 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #1,054 | 192 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #867 | 243 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #865 | 236 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #759 | 278 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #725 | 282 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #647 | 334 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #690 | 313 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #781 | 264 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #773 | 266 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #864 | 227 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #1,350 | 114 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #2,317 | 43 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lucero! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Lucero
- 152 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,512)
- 137 spots since 2020 (#1,649 → #1,512)
- 302 spots since 2015 (#1,814 → #1,512)
- Biggest jump: 486 spots in 1990 (#1,350 → #864)
- Biggest drop: 187 spots in 1999 (#867 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1994 at #647 (334 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1990–1998
- Highest: 1 in 5,347 girls born in 1994 were named Lucero (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,399 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.1% of all girls named Lucero (2,635) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10 | #6,567 (1961) | #7,019 |
| 1970s | 113 | #3,442 (1979) | #5,092 |
| 1980s | 389 | #1,350 (1989) | #2,957 |
| 1990s | 2,635 | #647 (1994) | #803 |
| 2000s | 2,255 | #957 (2007) | #1,062 |
| 2010s | 1,515 | #1,136 (2010) | #1,513 |
| 2020s | 812 | #1,465 (2023) | #1,570 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lucero in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 9,370 of them was named Lucero, which outranked 93.9% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,123Averi196
- #1,123Danae196
- #1,123Lilianna196
- #1,126Lucero195
- #1,126Janie195
- #1,126Jazlynn195
- #1,126Jena195
- #1,132Daisha193
- #1,132Juanita193
- #1,132Martina193
Tied with 5 names at #1,126; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.