Luce is an American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French and Italian surname. It is also a French and Italian feminine given name, and it is a variant of Lucy. The meaning of the given name Luce is "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 include Luci, Lucy, Lucey, Lucie, and Lucia.
Luce can refer to:
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People
Given name
As a given name, Luce can refer to:
Luce (mascot) mascot of the catholic 2025 jubilee year
Luce (singer) (born 1990), real name Lucie Brunet, French singer, winner of Nouvelle Star in 2010
Luce Caponegro (born 1966), 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 (born 1966), French-Canadian singer
Luce Eekman (1933–2025), French architect and actress
Luce Fabbri (1908–2000), Italian anarchist writer
Luce Irigaray (born 1930), Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalytic, sociologist and cultural theorist
Surname
As a surname, Luce can refer to:
A. A. Luce (1882–1977), Irish academic and cleric
Albert Luce (1888–1962), American industrialist
Angela Luce (1937/1938–2026), Italian film actress and singer
Charles D. Luce (1820–1887), American politician
Claire Luce (1903–1989), American actress and dancer
Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987), American playwright and politician
Clarence Sumner Luce (1852–1924), American architect
Cyrus G. Luce (1824–1905), former governor of the U.S. state of Michigan
Damien Luce (born 1978), French pianist
David Luce (1906–1971), British Admiral and First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy
Derrel Luce (born 1952), American football linebacker
Don Luce (born 1948), Canadian hockey player
R. Duncan Luce (1925–2012), American mathematician and psychologist
Edward Luce (born 1968), British journalist
Edwin John Luce (1881–1918), British writer and journalist in Jèrriais, the Norman language of Jersey
Gordon H. Luce (1889–1979), an English scholar of Burma