Lucretia
Lucretia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 207th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1974190 births
- Best rank
- #207in 1882
- Since 1880
- 10,422people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,422 girls have been named Lucretia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 190 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 190 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1970s alone account for 15%. It has spent 98 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lucretia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 365 | |
| 1890s | 302 | |
| 1900s | 319 | |
| 1910s | 657 | |
| 1920s | 902 | |
| 1930s | 841 | |
| 1940s | 1,288 | |
| 1950s | 1,311 | |
| 1960s | 1,552 | |
| 1970s | 1,568 | |
| 1980s | 842 | |
| 1990s | 365 | |
| 2000s | 70 | |
| 2010s | 40 |
In 1974, its biggest year
Lucretia was the 747th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1974 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Heather and Angela. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Lucretia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Armindapeak 1981
- Frederickapeak 1947
- Deliapeak 1957
- Geniepeak 1982
- Minervapeak 1955
- Loupeak 1954
- Partheniapeak 1923
- Georgiannapeak 1942
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.