Lucian

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lucian: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lucian: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #312, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#312highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1997	#2022
1998	#1485
1999	#1664
2000	#1552
2001	#983
2002	#950
2003	#1011
2004	#999
2005	#872
2006	#698
2007	#603
2008	#728
2009	#544
2010	#574
2011	#467
2012	#398
2013	#500
2014	#475
2015	#450
2016	#448
2017	#443
2018	#481
2019	#493
2020	#492
2021	#471
2022	#488
2023	#411
2024	#468

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #312 among boys in Northern Ireland, #411 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Lucian appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,584 births with the name.

Lucian across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lucian's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#398 (2012)	#468 (2024)	29 of 29	1,584 (1996–2024)	103 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#605 (2013)	#605 (2013)	#829 (2025)	5 of 13	17 (2013–2025)	4 (2013)

Lucian by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lucian in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	24	4 of 10	6
2000s	295	10 of 10	30
2010s	839	10 of 10	84
2020sbusiest	426	5 of 10	85

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 85 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 28, from 103 to 75.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lucian appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #312 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Lucian's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#468	85	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#411	96	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#488	81	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#471	86	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#492	78	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#493	79	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#481	84	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#443	95	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#448	91	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#450	90	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#475	83	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#500	75	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#398	103	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#467	80	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#574	59	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#544	62	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#728	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#603	49	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#698	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#872	26	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#999	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1011	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#983	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #312, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 103 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Luci · #351, 28y
Lucia · #71, 65y
Luciana · #397, 29y
Lucianna · #1675, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mea · #312, 25y
Moses · #312, 29y
Raja · #312, 29y
Jada · #311, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aled · #312, 29y
Ellena · #312, 29y
Emmanuella · #312, 29y
Mea · #312, 25y

Lucian was ranked #312 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lucian and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lucian without appearing here.

Lucian moved ahead of

Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2357 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1552 and #3036.
Herman Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2357 and #2357 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1485 and #2901.
Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1485 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1664 and #2943.
Leif Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #1591 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1664 and #2943.

Moved ahead of Lucian

Arlo Compare
In 2007 they stood at #603 and #651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #728 and #567.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #698 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #603 and #538.

Moved the opposite way to Lucian

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Lucian

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lucian went from #2357 to #468 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #312 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lucian

Lucian at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lucian across 2 official records

Lucian by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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Lucian across 2 official records

Lucian by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lucian

Lucian and the names beside it

Lucian moved ahead of

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