Luciana
So rare in Poland that most people have never met one: around 140 women carry it in all, and the newborns barely register. From Latin, it means "light".
Luciana Pronunciation
Luciana is pronounced loo-CHAH-nah (/luˈt͡ɕana/).
What Luciana means
Where Luciana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Luciana is a Latin name. The root is lux, meaning light, and it reaches back to the Roman family of the Lucii. In Polish that sense is written plainly as światło.
The name took hold in Italy and Spain, where it still sounds at home. Close beside it stand the masculine Lucjan and the Polish variant Lucjana. Its older relative, Lucia, is honored on 13 December, the feast of Saint Lucy, whose legend ties her to light and to sight.
Every form in this small cluster keeps that first meaning. The root means light.
Picture a school register where a Lucjana is marked present two lines below a Lucjan. Both names run back, through Italian and Spanish use, to the same Latin word. The gloss beside it still reads światło, light.
How many people are named Luciana
1 in 159885 women in Poland is named Luciana. 141 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2760 among female names.
Luciana's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where parents choose Luciana
Luciana is most popular in Lower Silesian, 1275% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lower Silesian
+1,275%1 in 78,567 babies
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Lower Silesian+1,275% 2 born1 in 78,567 babies+1,275%
Luciana as a middle name
Luciana is a first name for 141 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1239th, between Koryna (32) and Margarida (32).
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#1237 Kataleja32
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#1238 Koryna32
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#1239 Luciana32
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#1240 Margarida32
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#1241 Margita32