Lucero
Lucero is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 123 births. Its best rank was 647th, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1230.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1994334 births
- Best rank
- #647in 1994
- Since 1961
- 7,799people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,587 girls have been named Lucero in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 334 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 1990s alone account for 35%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 212 boys have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1994, its biggest year
Lucero was the 647th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1994 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1994.
Names that rose and fell with Lucero
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Biankapeak 2007
- Moriahpeak 1992
- Daysipeak 1996
- Karleypeak 2005
- Beccapeak 1993
- Alyxpeak 1993
- Jazminepeak 2006
- Mariahpeak 1996
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.