Lacretia
Feminine
Lacretia puts an American front onto a Roman family name, and the Roman part is one of the oldest in the record — the name of a clan that produced a poet, a legend and a republic's founding story.
How old is the name Lacretia?
Lacretia first appears in US birth records in 1937 — 88 years ago. The typical Lacretia alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 900 people named Lacretia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lacretia most popular?
Lacretia peaked in 1975, reaching #2023 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lacretia
Two things worth knowing are attached to the Roman name, and a child carrying this one is entitled to both. The first is a book: a Lucretius wrote a long poem arguing that the world is made of particles falling through emptiness, that the gods do not interfere, and that death is nothing to fear — and the poem vanished for a thousand years until a book-hunter found a copy in a German monastery and had it recopied. It changed European thought when it came back. The second is an American: Lucretia Mott, a Quaker minister who was refused a seat at an international antislavery convention because she was a woman, and who went home, kept preaching, and helped organize the meeting at Seneca Falls that began the campaign for women's votes.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Lucretia, the name underneath, is a Roman family name, and Roman family names usually cannot be translated — they are older than the explanations offered for them. The connection between this spelling and that name is one of sound and shape rather than of descent, so no meaning passes down to it. The front syllable carries none of its own.
Pronouncing Lacretia
luh-KREE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The ti in the middle says sh, as it does in nation and patient.
Nicknames for Lacretia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1937
- Most girls named
- 197543 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2023reached in 1975
- Change vs 1994
- +10.0%11 in 1996, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lacretia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lucrezia in Italian — related form
- Lucrecia in Spanish — related form
Lacretias among us
people named Lacretia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lacretia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is rare while sounding entirely familiar, which is a hard combination to arrange.
- The back of the name connects to a genuinely ancient one, which is something to tell.
- It shortens cleanly in two different directions.
- Lucretia, Lacresha and Lakeisha are all near neighbors and the spelling will be guessed.
- The ti-said-as-sh will trip anyone reading it for the first time.
- No meaning descends to it, and the Roman name it resembles cannot be translated either.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lacretias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Lacretia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lacretia in 2025?
- Lacretia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lacretia with classmates?
- Lacretia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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