Lucja
From the Latin for "light", a name given only to girls. Fewer than 3,000 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Lucja Pronunciation
Lucja is pronounced LOOTS-yah (/ˈlut͡sja/).
What Lucja means
Where Lucja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lucja comes from Latin, from lux, meaning light. The Romans used the masculine form Lucius long before it crossed into Polish, and that older root still shows in the variant Lucjusz. In Polish the short meaning stays close to the source: światło, light.
Saint Lucia of Syracuse gave the name much of its later reach. Her feast falls on the thirteenth of December, and before the calendar reform that date sat near the winter solstice, one of the darkest points of the year. A name meaning light landed on the year's shortest days.
Read from a class register, Lucja sits among the Zofias and Amelias without fuss. The tie to Lucjusz keeps a male counterpart close. Light is the whole of it.
When Lucja celebrates name day
Lucja appears 9 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 Lucja
1 in 7913 women in Poland is named Lucja. 2,849 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #604 among female names.
Lucja's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1094 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #604 name among living women, even as it slips to #1094 among newborns.
Where Lucja is most popular
Lucja is most popular in Pomeranian, 633% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+326%) and Masovian (+52%).
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Pomeranian4 girls born+633%
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Łódź2 girls born+326%
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Masovian2 girls born+52%
Lucja as a middle name
Lucja is a first name for 2,849 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,356, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 228th, between Klementyna (1,378) and Sophie (1,336).
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#226 Tekla1,380
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#227 Klementyna1,378
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#228 Lucja1,356
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#229 Sophie1,336
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#230 Teofila1,334