Lūce

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Vēdzele

Lūce is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 34K
  • USUnited States1 in 34K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,704 people, 2010

Sources
381 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Luce in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

Vēdzele

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lūce counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lūce is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9,7041 in 34K9.7KLuce381
FR France≈3,600 est.≈1 in 19K8.6KLuce261
IT Italy≈3,100 est.≈1 in 20K246Luce31
GB United Kingdom≈1,600 est.≈1 in 41K—Luce105
CA Canada≈1,100 est.≈1 in 34K—Luce96
IE Ireland≈210 est.≈1 in 25K—Luce12
NZ New Zealand≈190 est.≈1 in 26K—Luce24

9,704 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lūce is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Luz, Luce, Luš, Luče, Lus

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lūce is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Čūska

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lūce under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lūce mean?
Recorded meaning: Vēdzele
In which country does Lūce have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.7 thousand people named Lūce, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luce.
How common is the name Lūce?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,704 people named Lūce in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lūce”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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