Łucja
An old name climbing back into use: more girls got it last year than in years past, and it now sits among the names Poles readily recognize. From the Latin *lux*, it carries one plain meaning: light.
Łucja Pronunciation
Łucja is pronounced WOOTS-yah (/ˈwut͡sja/).
What Łucja means
Where Łucja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Łucja grows from the Latin lux, lucis, meaning light. The Roman name Lucius and its feminine Lucia share that root, and so does the French variant Lucie that some Polish families choose instead. The short meaning stays close to the source: światło.
The best known bearer is Saint Lucy of Syracuse, a fourth-century martyr whose feast falls on 13 December. In the older calendar her day sat near the winter solstice, when daylight runs shortest. That timing fixed the tie between the name and light in people's minds. The link came through her story. Sound had little to do with it.
Read a class register in a Polish school today and Łucja turns up now and then, never in a crowd. It has an antique ring that suits the paper of an official form at the urząd. The variant Lucie shortens the sound and travels easily across borders. Either way, the meaning holds: światło, light.
When Łucja celebrates name day
Łucja appears 10 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 25 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Łucja
1 in 454 women in Poland is named Łucja. 49,652 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #189 among female names.
Łucja's popularity over time
1,901 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #40 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where parents choose Łucja
Łucja is most popular in Pomeranian, 25% above the national average (1,116 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+23%) and Masovian (+12%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lubusz, 27% and 19% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian
+25%1 in 132 babies
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Lublin
+23%1 in 135 babies
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Masovian
+12%1 in 148 babies
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Subcarpathian
−27%1 in 227 babies
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Lubusz
−19%1 in 205 babies
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Podlaskie
−14%1 in 193 babies
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Pomeranian+25% 1,116 born1 in 132 babies+25%
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Lublin+23% 762 born1 in 135 babies+23%
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Masovian+12% 2,389 born1 in 148 babies+12%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+8% 711 born1 in 154 babies+8%
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Opole+3% 287 born1 in 161 babies+3%
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Greater Poland+1% 1,308 born1 in 165 babies+1%
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Silesian−2% 1,347 born1 in 169 babies−2%
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Lower Silesian−3% 922 born1 in 170 babies−3%
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Warmian-Masurian−6% 406 born1 in 177 babies−6%
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Łódź−7% 710 born1 in 178 babies−7%
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Lesser Poland−10% 1,237 born1 in 183 babies−10%
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West Pomeranian−12% 451 born1 in 187 babies−12%
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Podlaskie−14% 341 born1 in 193 babies−14%
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Holy Cross−14% 289 born1 in 192 babies−14%
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Lubusz−19% 242 born1 in 205 babies−19%
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Subcarpathian−27% 530 born1 in 227 babies−27%
Łucja as a middle name
Łucja is a first name for 49,652 women in Poland and a middle name for another 53,469, a 48/52 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 49th, between Wanda (56,675) and Emilia (49,020).
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#47 Renata58,366
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#48 Wanda56,675
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#49 Łucja53,469
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#50 Emilia49,020
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#51 Dominika48,283