Lucius

Lucius comes from the Latin lux, light, and was one of the old praenomens of the Roman Republic, borne by senators, emperors, and three popes. It passes through the New Testament in Paul's letter to the Romans, giving it a quiet early-Christian warmth alongside its civic weight. In English it kept a faintly theatrical life — Lucius Malfoy, Lucius Fox — and has gathered fresh momentum as parents rediscover the L-names of antiquity. Two syllables, LOO-shus or LOO-see-us. The name reads bright and literate, a boy's name for a child whose teachers will mention, more than once, that he is unusually well-read for his age.