Given name
Lucetta
Lucetta elaborates Lucia or Lucy with the affectionate ending -etta.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Lucetta isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Lucetta is Julia’s waiting woman in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Although the ending is Italian in origin, the name’s English literary history is a distinct part of its story.
Lucetta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 563
- 0 boys · 563 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,329 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,329 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 241 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lucetta’s family of names
Lucetta has a related form in Lucy. In English usage, Lucetta has a conventional equivalent in the German form Lucia. In Italian usage, Lucetta has a conventional equivalent in the French form Lucette.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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