Luci

Where Luci comes from

A modern nonstandard spelling of Lucy, from Lucia, from the Latin feminine form of the Latin praenomen Lucius, from lux "light".
— Wiktionary's entry for Luci
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1937
    First appearance
    #4,255 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Peak, #1,194
    81 babies named Luci — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1970
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,307.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.