Lucile

Where Lucile comes from

The dictionaries list Lucile as a given name — a female given name from Latin, variant of Lucille — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1879
    Lucile Watson born
    Canadian actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #247 among girls — 40 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1904
    Lucile Randon born
    French Catholic sister and supercentenarian
  4. 1908
    Peak, #115
    592 babies named Lucile — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #381.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Lucille.
Namesakes
  • Lucile Randon · French Catholic sister and supercentenarian, 1904–2023
  • Lucile Watson · Canadian actress, 1879–1962
  • Lucile Grahn · Danish ballet dancer, 1819–1907
  • Lucile Hadžihalilović · French film director, film editor and screenwriter, born 1961
  • Lucile Desmoulins · French revolutionary, 1770–1794

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.