I love how versatile the Indo–European names are. They have so many versions across widely differing languages, able to translate into all these languages and cultures. One of those universal names is Lucia/Lucius, which comes from the Latin word lux, “light.”
Male forms:
1. Lucius is Latin and English.
2. Loukios is Greek.
3. Lucio is Italian and Spanish. The Portuguese variant is Lúcio.
4. Lucjusz is Polish.
5. Lūcijs is Latvian.
6. Lucijus is Lithuanian.
7. Luciu is Sicilian.
8. Lucillus is an alternate Latin form.
9. Luzius is Swiss–German.
10. Lutsiy is Russian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian.
11. Lucije is Serbian, Slovenian, and Croatian.
12. Lucianus is another Latin form.
13. Luciano is Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
14. Lucien is French.
15. Łucjan (WOOTS-yahn) is Polish.
16. Lucian is English and Romanian. The Czech and Slovak form is Lucián.
17. Luken is Basque.
18. Luciaan is Dutch.
19. Lučiano is a rare Croatian form.
20. Lucijano is the more common Croatian form.
21. Lukyan is Russian and Ukrainian.
22. Luzian is German.
23. Lyutsian is Russian.
24. Lyuksen is Russian.
25. Lukian is Russian.
26. Lučano is Slovenian.
Female forms:
1. Lucia is Latin in origin, and is used in English, Romanian, Italian, German, Slovakian, and the Scandinavian languages. The Spanish variation is Lucía, the Portuguese form is Lúcia, and the Icelandic variation is Lúcía.
2. Lucilla is an Italian and Latin diminutive form.
3. Lucie is Czech and French, though with a pronunciation difference. Czech pronounces the last two vowels separately, instead of as one.
4. Lucille is the French form of Lucilla.
5. Lucinda is an elaborated form of Lucia, created by the great Miguel Cervantes in Don Quixote (1605).
6. Lucija is Slovenian, Serbian, and Croatian. The Latvian form is Lūcija.
7. Lucinde is the French form of Lucinda.
8. Łucja (WOOTS-yah) is Polish. This is the original birth name of my character Lucinda. Though she was born in the U.S., her parents were very Polish.
9. Lucila is the Spanish form of Lucilla.
10. Llúcia is Catalan.
11. Lucette is French, a diminutive of Lucie.
12. Liucija is Lithuanian.
13. Luus is Dutch and Limburgish.
14. Luce is a French and Italian variation of Lucia. This is also the Italian word for “light.”
15. Luzia is Portuguese and German. This isn’t to be confused with the very similar name Luiza! Though Lucia has long been the more common German form, Luzia is the older form, and has been gaining more popularity in recent years.
16. Luca (LOO-tsah) is Hungarian and Croatian.
17. Liùsaidh is Scottish.
18. Lucy is English, and has been used since the Middle Ages.
19. Lucetta is an English diminutive of Lucette. Shakespeare used it in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594).
20. Luciana is Spanish, Italian, Latin, and Portuguese. The Hungarian variant is Luciána, and the Brazilian–Portuguese variant is Lucianna.
21. Lucienne is French.
22. Lucina is derived from the Latin word lucus, “grove,” though it later came to be associated with all the other Luc- names. This was the name of the Roman goddess of childbirth.
23. Lucine is the French form of Lucina, and an alternate transliteration of the Armenian Lusine/Lusineh, though the Luc- root is just a coincidence in this case. It means “Moon” in Armenian.
24. Loukia is Greek.
25. Lleulu (HLYOO-loo) is Welsh.
26. Luchiya is Russian and Bulgarian.
27. Luciane is Swedish.
28. Lucienna is used in various languages.
29. Luçja is Albanian.
30. Lukene is Basque. Another Basque form is Luke, which I wouldn’t use in an Anglophone country due to the obvious pronunciation confusion.
31. Lûsîa is Greenlandic. The Finnish and Faroese form is Lusia.
32. Lusiana is Indonesian, and a rarer Romanian and English form.
33. Lukiana is Russian.
34. Lusiya is Christian Indian (i.e., Asian).
35. Lutsiya is Russian and Bulgarian.
36. Luxia is Basque and Sardinian, though very rare in the former and archaic in the latter.
37. Luziana is Basque and Brazilian–Portuguese.
38. Lukina is Russian.
39. Lyutsina is Russian.
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