Entry № 6072 · French origin

Lucille Lucille — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Light (Lucille Ball, I Love Lucy)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "light (lucille ball, i love lucy)".

Lucille is the French feminine of Lucius — from the Latin lux (light). Presidential Medal of Freedom (1989). Honored on a US postage stamp.

Light (Lucille Ball, I Love Lucy) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Lucille
Transliteration
Lucille
Pronunciation
/ luːˈsiːl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lucille stands.

Lucille does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lucilles before her.

Real people
Lucille Ball
American sitcom pioneer.
1911 – 1989
Lucille Clifton
American Pulitzer poet.
1936 – 2010
In fiction
Lucille
I Love Lucy.
1951

Names connected to Lucille.

The number behind Lucille.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lucille reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.