Lucretia

Where Lucretia comes from

Originally from Latin lucrum (“gain, profit”). Many people with the given name have no doubt been named after others so named, not necessarily after the 6th-century-BC Roman noblewoman.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lucretia
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1793
    Lucretia Mott born
    American quaker missionary
  2. 1832
    Lucretia Garfield born
    First Lady of the United States from 1881 to 1881
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #288 among girls — 29 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1882
    Peak, #205
    65 babies named Lucretia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #391.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin. The feminine form of Lucretius.
Namesakes
  • Lucretia Mott · American quaker missionary, 1793–1880
  • Lucretia Garfield · First Lady of the United States from 1881 to 1881, 1832–1918
  • Lucretia Maria Davidson · American poet, 1808–1825
  • Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg · American suffragist, reformer, 1845–1937
  • Lucretia Love · American actress, 1941–2019

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.