Luce (name)
| Luce | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation |
/ˈluːs/ Italian: [ˈluːtʃe] French: [lys] |
| Gender | Male/Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | Light |
| Region of origin | Latin |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Lucy, Luci, Lucette, Lucia, Lucio, Lucile, Lucey, Luciana, Luciano, Lucinda, Luca Luke |
| Popularity | see popular names |
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Luce is an American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French and Italian surname. It is also a French and Italian feminine given name, variant of Lucia and Lucy, meaning "light".
The English Luce surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. Alternative spellings and related names are: Luci, Lucy, Lucey, Lucie, Lucia, Luke.
Luce can refer to:
People
Given Name
As a given name, Luce can refer to:
- Luce (singer), real name Lucie Brunet, French singer, winner of Nouvelle Star in 2010
- Luce Caponegro, Italian actress and TV presenter and a former pornographic actress, best known under the stage name Selen
- Luce De Gast, Lord of the castle of Gast
- Luce Dufault, a French-Canadian singer
- Luce Fabbri, Italian anarchist writer
- Luce Irigaray, Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalytic, sociologist and cultural theorist
Surname
As a surname, Luce can refer to:
- A. A. Luce, Irish academic and cleric
- Albert Luce, American industrialist
- Claire Luce, American actress and dancer
- Clare Boothe Luce, playwright and politician, wife of Henry Luce
- Cyrus G. Luce, former governor of the U.S. state of Michigan
- Damien Luce, French pianist
- David Luce, British Admiral and First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy
- Derrel Luce, American football linebacker
- Don Luce, Canadian hockey player
- R. Duncan Luce, American mathematician and psychologist
- Edward Luce, British journalist
- Edwin John Luce, British writer and journalist in Jèrriais, the Norman language of Jersey
- Gordon H. Luce, an English scholar of Burma
- Henry Luce, co-founder and editor of Time Magazine, philanthropist
- John Luce, Scottish bishop of Dunkeld
- John V. Luce, Irish classicist
- Lew Luce, American football running back
- Maximilien Luce, French painter
- Mike Luce, American drummer
- Moses A. Luce, American Sergeant in the Union Army
- Renan Luce, a French singer and songwriter
- Richard Luce, Baron Luce, British politician
- Richard Luce (surgeon) (1867–1952) British medical doctor, army Major-General, MP for Derby
- Robert Luce, American politician
- Ron Luce, American evangelist
- Stanford Luce, a translator of Jules Verne and Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Stephen Luce, U.S. Navy admiral