Lucilia

Q: What does Lucilia mean?

Lucilia is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “light”, feminine of the Roman name Lucilius, from Lucius. From the Roman family name Lucilius, derived from Lucius and linked to Latin lux 'light'.

Gender: Girl
Say it: loo-SEE-lee-ah
Origin: Latin
US rank, 2025: #5,553 for girls

Lucilia is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “light”. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

What does Lucilia mean?

Latin: feminine of the Roman name Lucilius, from Lucius

“light”

From the Roman family name Lucilius, derived from Lucius and linked to Latin lux 'light'.

Is Lucilia a girl's or a boy's name?

Lucilia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lucilia in the US?

Rank in 2025: 5,553rd among girls
Babies in 2025: 22 about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend: Rising fast up 195% in five years
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Lucilia, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. It first appears in the records in 2007.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had the most girls named Lucilia of any year since it first appeared, in 2007.

Half of all the girls named Lucilia in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2007Busiest: 22 in 20252025

Lucilia in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	22	#5,553
2024	20	#5,959
2023	17	#6,675
2022	15	#7,276
2021	7	#12,201
2020	7	#12,137
2019	6	#13,793
2018	7	#12,459
2017	9	#10,685
2016	11	#9,408
2015	6	#14,477
2014	13	#8,480
2013	14	#8,131
2012	12	#9,105
2011	6	#14,816
2010	5	#16,985
2009	8	#12,423
2008	7	#13,827
2007	5	#17,630