Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Lucia

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LUCIA

GENDER: Feminine

USAGE: Italian, German, English, Scandinavian, Romanian, Slovak, Ancient Roman

PRONOUNCED: loo-CHEE-ah (Italian), LOO-tsee-ah (German), LOO-shə (English), loo-SEE-ə (English) [key]

Meaning & History

Feminine form of LUCIUS. Saint Lucia was a 4th-century martyr from Syracuse. She was said to have had her eyes gouged out, and thus is the patron saint of the blind. She was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name has been used throughout Christian Europe (in various spellings). It has been used in the England since the 12th-century, usually in the spellings Lucy or Luce.

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VARIANTS: Luce (Italian), Luzia (German), Lucy (English)

DIMINUTIVES: Lucilla (Italian), Lucetta, Lucinda (English), Lucilla (Ancient Roman)

MASCULINE FORMS: Lucio (Italian), Lucius (English), Lucius (Ancient Roman)

OTHER LANGUAGES: Llúcia (Catalan), Luca, Lucija (Croatian), Lucie (Czech), Luus (Dutch), Lucie, Luce, Lucette, Lucile, Lucille, Lucinde (French), Luca (Hungarian), Luus (Limburgish), Lucinda (Literature), Łucja, Lucja (Polish), Lúcia, Luzia, Lucinda (Portuguese), Liùsaidh (Scottish), Lucija (Slovene), Lucía, Lucila (Spanish), Lleucu (Welsh)

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