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Lucyna

After a quiet stretch, Lucyna is being given again: more girls got the name last year than in most years since 2000. Latin at root, a sister to Lucja, it carries the sense of "light".

Lucyna Pronunciation

Lucyna is pronounced loo-TSIH-nah (/luˈt͡sɨna/).

Related names
Lucja
Alive in 2025
78,719
Newborns 2025
74
National rank
#143
Next name day
17 October
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What Lucyna means

Where Lucyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Lucyna comes from Latin. The root is lux, lucis, the word for light, and the short meaning stays close to that root, which does not always happen with names. Its variant Lucja draws on the same source, and both go back to the masculine Lucjusz. Many names drift in sense across centuries. Here the origin and the meaning agree on light.

The Romans honoured a goddess called Lucina, tied to light and to the safe birth of children. A later Saint Lucyna, a Roman matron of the third century, gave the name a Christian patron. So it gathered two layers, a pagan figure of light and a Christian saint, well before it reached Poland.

In Poland Lucyna spread from the nineteenth century onward and grew common around the middle of the twentieth. It keeps its name-day on 30 June, with 17 and 26 October also marked in the calendar. Picture a class register where the teacher reads it out among the Julias and Zuzannas. The Polish gloss stays plain, niosąca światło, the one who brings light.

When Lucyna celebrates name day

Lucyna appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 30 June.

Next name day
17 October
Saturday in 2026
Next one in 37 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Lucyna

1 in 286 women in Poland is named Lucyna. 78,719 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #143 among female names.

People with the name Lucyna 2019 → 2025
78,719 -6,664 since 2019
2020 84,831 -552
2021 83,497 -1,334
2022 82,117 -1,380
2023 80,942 -1,175
2024 79,828 -1,114
2025 78,719 -1,109

Lucyna's popularity over time

74 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #282 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2007. Still the #143 name among living women, even as it slips to #282 among newborns.

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74 newborns with the name Lucyna in 2025
national rank #282 that year

Where Lucyna is most popular

Lucyna is most popular in Masovian, 70% above the national average (133 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+29%) and Greater Poland (+27%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lubusz, 92% and 63% below average respectively.

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Lucyna as a middle name

Lucyna is a first name for 78,719 women in Poland and a middle name for another 37,178, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 59th, between Edyta (39,174) and Hanna (36,564).

As a first name
78,719
As a middle name
37,178
first name 68% middle name 32%
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