My favourite long form of Lucy! Lucy works as a name in its own right, but I prefer it as a nickname for the beautiful and unique Luciana. I would pronounce it loo -see-AH-na, but it can also be pronounced with -chee, -thee, -shee, and tsee, all of witch are beautiful. It means light, which is perfect because it’s so full of light and life. A long and magical name, I would use it to honour my grandfather Lucian.
Luciana Maria Arrighi AM (born 1940) is a Brazilian-born, Australian-raised, Italian production designer. She won an Oscar for the film Howards End in the category Best Art Direction. She went on to study painting in Italy and she has also worked in costume design in theatre and opera, including with Vienna State Opera, Opera Australia and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Luciana Castellina (born 9 August 1929) is an Italian journalist, writer, politician, and feminist. She was president of Italia cinema, an agency to promote Italian films abroad, from 1998 to 2003. Castellina was named an Officier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Comendadora (Commander) of the Republic of Argentina.
Such a beautiful name! In my top 3 girl's names (also Liberty and Daisy). My best friend is called Luciana (pronounced Loo-chee-ana). We call her Luci (loo-chee) for short.
Luciana Salazar is a singer, model and actress. Salazar started her career as a model at the age of four, when she shot her first television commercial. As a teenager, she began to work as a model in Buenos Aires and began to take dancing and singing classes.
Luciana Angiolillo is an Italian former actress and model. She is sometimes credited as Luciana Angelillo. Born Luciana Nevi in Rome, Angiolillo started her career as a runway model. She made her film debut thanks to the friendship of Ennio Flaiano, who suggested her to the director Luciano Emmer for the role of an upper class lady in Camilla. From then she appeared in a number of films, often in stereotypical roles of snobbish bourgeois ladies. Gradually relegated to secondary roles, Angiolillo eventually devoted herself to the direction of a fashion house owned by her.
The name appears in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. I believe in Renaissance English, this would have been pronounced as loo-SHAY-nah or loo-SHAH-nah. Compare to Georgiana which was pronounced as (jor-JAY-nah) in Renaissance and certain dialects of modern British English.
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I love this name. Here in Brazil it's pronounced loo-cee-uh-nuh, and we consider it as a combination of Lucia + Ana. I like names like Luciana, Juliana, Mariana...
In Italy Luciana was overused in the second quarter of the 20th century. It was the 5th most popular name in Rome in 1926 (behind Maria, Silvana, Maria Luisa and Liliana) and 1931 (behind Maria, Annamaria, Marisa and Anna), 10th in 1936, 7th in 1941 and 9th in 1946. Today it is hardly ever used.
On "Barbie As The Island Princess", Princess Luciana (not played by Barbie) almost married Prince Antonio. Princess Luciana was nice and she had brown hair.