Given name & surname
Luciana
“the luminous one”
Luciana is a feminine given name from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and 1 other language.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Luciana goes back to Latin Lucianus, meaning “the luminous one.”
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Where it comes from
Luciana comes from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Luciana, built from English Lucia//Lucie//Lucy + -ana.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1897. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Luciana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16,629
- 0 boys · 16,629 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 1,139 babies
- 2025
- 1,139
- #273 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +22%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 1,139 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 273 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 21.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (171). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 14,395 as a first name in 2020; 117 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Luciana’s family of names
Luciana is a feminine form of Luciano. Luciana has a related form in Lucy. In Italian usage, Luciana has a conventional equivalent in the German form Lucia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Luciana has relatives in 3 languages.
5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- LuciaGerman
- Lucianomasculine form
- LucianEnglish
- Luciannaequivalent
- Lucinaequivalent
- LucienneFrench
- LuziaGerman
- LucianneFrench, German
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People named Luciana
- Luciana AymarArgentinian field hockey playerborn 1977
- Luciana PaluzziItalian actressborn 1937
- Luciana LamorgeseItalian civil servant and prefect, Minister of the Interior in the Draghi governmentborn 1953
- Lu AndradeBrazilian singer and actressborn 1978
- Luciana FusterPeruvian model, beauty queen and television personalityborn 1999
- Luciana LittizzettoItalian comedian and actressborn 1964
- Luciana GimenezBrazilian television presenter, businesswoman and modelborn 1969
- Luciana AngiolilloItalien actress (1925–2014)
- Luciana SalazarArgentine singer, model and actress (born 1980)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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