Lucius

Lucius is the name of the main character in The Golden Ass by Apuleius. The Golden Ass details a rather odd series of events that result in Lucius becoming a worshipper of Goddess. An extensive aretalogy is included, which ultimately specifies that the true name of Goddess is Isis. Lucius is thus the name of one of the most well-known followers of Isis. This literary use of the name predates Lucius Malfoy by nearly two thousand years, and perhaps more, as The Golden Ass might be a rewriting of an older work by a different author (by the name of Lucius - perhaps the book began as a fictionalized, or at least metaphorized, autobiography).

Some have the impression that Lucius is Satan's son because there is a video game where you play as a boy named Lucius, who is the son of the devil, and you kill people to get in Satan's good favors and to become powerful.

Lucius was one of the more common Roman praenomina. There was a Lucius Julius Caesar (a consul before the more famous Gaius), Lucius Licinius Crassus, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the young Lucius Caesar and many others.

Lucius comes from the Latin derivitive "lux" which means "light" this is true. However "Lucius", "Lucian", and particularly "Lucien" actually, literally translates as "light bearer" or in the case of "Lucien", literally "bearer of light".

Here is another "little known fact" about the name "Lucius". Its "root" as "lux" meaning "light" is the same "root" as "Lucian" and "Lucien" and "Lucifer". The "LUCI..." "part" of the word is the "English translation" of the Latin root "lux". However only "Lucien" and "Lucifer" are so closely synonomous. They both literally translate to "bearer of light". So those of you who have another way of spelling it can RELAX. Your spelling ONLY actually "translates" to "lux", which as you all know NOW is "light".

While you're spot on with being derived from 'lux', the 'Luci' bit is not quite the English translation - I think the Romans would have been unimpressed with the suggestion that they were using a not-yet-invented-language for one of their most common names. :) Luc(xx) is the basis for conjugation, e.g. the genitive is "lucis". Nevermind all this though, it's a lovely name either way.

English wasn't 'invented'. No one said, 'hmm, I'd like to create my own language, and call it "English."' That sounds like a bit of a jab to me, like Latin is this magnificent language that's been going on forever and then someone decided to come up with English one day. Technically English could not be said to exist before the fifth century, but it was certainly in development before, as the Germanic languages spoken by the Angles and Saxons who settled on the island.