Lucien

Where Lucien comes from

Lucien hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1775
    Lucien Bonaparte born
    1st Prince of Canino and Musignano
  2. 1878
    Lucien Febvre born
    French historian
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #392 among boys with 19 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #694.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lucien Febvre · French historian, 1878–1956
  • Lucien Bonaparte · 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano, 1775–1840
  • Lucien Laurent · French footballer, 1907–2005
  • Lucien Lévy-Bruhl · French philosopher, 1857–1939
  • Lucien Petit-Breton · French cyclist, 1882–1917

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.