Gender: Boy
Meaning: Light — radiant presence piercing through darkness
Origin: French
Popularity: Ranked #912 in 2024 with 255 babies born.
History: Lucien surged in the 2020s as a French name meaning 'light.' Neil Gaiman's Sandman features Lucien, the librarian of the Dreaming. The French pronunciation adds sophistication the English Lucian lacks. Lucien means French light and literary dreams.
Name length: 6 letters
How common is Lucien? About 1 in 13,053 babies born in 2024 were named Lucien, or roughly 0.7 per day in the United States.
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