Lucja
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LOOTS-yah
- Origin
- Latin
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Lucja is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “light”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Lucja mean?
Latin: Polish form of Lucia
“light”
Lucia is linked to Latin lux, 'light'; St Lucy was a 4th-century martyr of Syracuse.
Is Lucja a girl's or a boy's name?
Lucja is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lucja in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 48% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Lucja, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 27 girls.
Half of all the girls named Lucja in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Lucja in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 27 | #1,298 |
| 2017 | 21 | #1,597 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,781 |
| 2015 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 11 | #2,454 |
| 2012 | 18 | #1,756 |
| 2011 | 13 | #2,152 |
| 2010 | 14 | #2,004 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 1 | #6,340 |
Names like Lucja
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lola, Rosa, Luna, Lucia, Alba, Layla, Esme, Ava, Clara, Pippa, Florence, Dua
Names related to Lucja
More Latin names
Oliver, Olivia, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Mabel, Nora, Rosie, Emilia, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian, Anthony, Austin
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lucja: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lucja, updated 20 October 2026.