Lucille
Meaning of Lucille
Lucille rolls off the tongue like a gentle song—loo-SEEL in London, loo-SIL in New York—and her story begins with the Latin lux, “light,” carried into French elegance as “little light.” She once lit up American birth lists in the Jazz Age, dimmed for a spell, and now flickers brighter each year, eager for a new encore. Comedy icon Lucille Ball proved the name can steal every scene, while blues king B. B. King trusted it for his favorite guitar, giving Lucille equal parts laughter and soul. Parents love the easy nicknames Lucy or Lu, yet the full form keeps its satin-glove grace. With classic charm, Latin fire, and a promise to glow through any era, a baby Lucille steps into the world holding her own tiny lantern.
Pronunciation
British English
- Pronunced as loo-SEEL (/luːˈsi:l/)
American English
- Pronunced as loo-SIL (/luːˈsɪl/)
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Notable People Named Lucille
| Lucille Ball was a trailblazing American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive, named by Time among the most influential women of the 20th century and honored with Emmys and major lifetime awards across film and television. |
| Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York, who served as Maryland Poet Laureate from 1979 to 1985 and was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. |
| Canadian American housewife and mother Lucille Marie Miller was convicted of first degree murder in the death of her husband, with prosecutors alleging she was inspired by the film Double Indemnity and its double payout life insurance clause. |
| Lucille Bogan was a pioneering American classic blues singer and songwriter, also known as Bessie Jackson, ranked among the big three with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, and her songs were widely covered by later blues and jazz musicians. |
| Lucille Nelson Hegamin was an early African American blues singer and entertainer. |
| Lucille Starr was a Canadian singer, songwriter, and yodeler from Saint Boniface, Manitoba, best known for her 1964 hit The French Song. |
| Lucille Kailer - Lucille Carrol Weinberger was an American operatic soprano who performed internationally in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Lucille Soong is a Chinese American actress active since 1959, best known as Jenny Huang on Fresh Off the Boat, who also wrote the memoir Wild Orchid From Beijing to La La Land and briefly used the stage name Soong Ling. |
| Lucille Andrea George-Wout is a Curacaoan politician serving as Curacao's second governor since 2013. |
| Lucille Mulhall was a famous cowgirl and Wild West show performer. |
| Lucille Chaffin Kent was an American aviator who trained military pilots in World War II. |
| Lucille Hanna McCollough was a Michigan teacher, stenographer, secretary, and politician who served in the state legislature from 1955 to 1983, overlapping with the Michigan Senate tenure of her son Patrick H. McCollough. |
| Lucille Evelyn Langford was an American geologist, micropaleontologist, and bilingual Spanish and English teacher. |
| Lucille Clifton, also known as Wii Nii Puun, was a Gitgaata Laxsgiik Eagle Clan leader named a National Historic Person by Canada in 2016. |
| Lucille Elizabeth Notter, also known as Lucille E. Notter, was an American nurse and researcher who directed the National League of Nursing publications, promoted nursing research, and was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1996. |
