Lutricia
Feminine
Lutricia joins a free front syllable to an ending borrowed from Latin. That ending belongs to a family of words about fathers and mothers, one of which has had the strangest career of any technical term in English.
How old is the name Lutricia?
Lutricia first appears in US birth records in 1930 — 95 years ago. The typical Lutricia alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 600 people named Lutricia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lutricia most popular?
Lutricia peaked in 1952, reaching #1578 nationally. See the whole 1952 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lutricia
Latin matrix means a womb, built directly on the word for a mother. Printers took it for the mold in which a piece of type was cast, because the mold gives birth to the letter. Mathematicians took it in the nineteenth century for a rectangular array of numbers, on the grounds that determinants could be generated from it. Geologists use it for the material a fossil is embedded in. Biologists use it for the substance between cells. And then a film took it for a simulated world, and for a generation that is the only meaning anybody reaches for. One Latin word for a womb, six technical vocabularies, and no two of them thinking about the same thing.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Patricia and Lucretia have both been suggested and neither is documented. The front is a free element and nothing explains this particular pairing.
Pronouncing Lutricia
loo-TREE-shuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The ci does the work of an sh.
Nicknames for Lutricia
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
- 1930
- Most girls named
- 195237 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1578reached in 1952
- Change vs 1979
- −40.0%6 in 1989, 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.
Lutricias among us
people named Lutricia 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
Lutricia 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
- Tricia comes off the back of it as a short form and is thoroughly established.
- The stress is unmistakable, so first attempts land correctly.
- Three syllables with a clear middle stress carry well across a room.
- Latricia, Lutrisha and Patricia are all in the record and will be confused with it.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing settled to answer with.
- It belongs audibly to one stretch of American naming, which places it in time for some listeners.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lutricias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Lutricia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lutricia in 2025?
- Lutricia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lutricia with classmates?
- Lutricia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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