Lucretia

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⭐ Famous Lucretia

Lucretia Mott

American quaker missionary

Choose Lucretia and your child shares a first name with Lucretia Mott, an American quaker missionary. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Lucretia, like who?” Lucretia Mott's Wikipedia article is available in 44 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 200,000 baby girls born in the US in 2025 was named Lucretia, 8 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Lucretia would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryLucretia has been in use since at least 1880, the first year US birth records were kept. That's 145 years of Lucretias, and counting.
• 🏆Best yearIt was far more popular in 1882, when it ranked #205. Today it's #10,917, so it could be due a comeback.

About the name Lucretia

Lucretia is a girl name of Latin origin. It has 8 letters and 3 syllables, starting with L and ending in “-tia”. US birth records list Lucretia for girls from 1880 to 2025, in 136 of those 146 years. Its best year was 1882, when it ranked #205 among girl names. In 2025 it ranked #10,917, with 8 babies.

Origin:Latin names