Meaning and background
The story behind Lucita
Lucita has a British cinema association through actress Lucita Lijertwood. The British Film Institute identifies her as Bopsie in Horace Ové’s 1975 film Pressure, the mother in a Trinidadian migrant family living in Notting Hill. The story follows her son Tony’s struggles with work, racism and belonging in London. This documents an exact-spelling performer in a specific role, without establishing that Lucita is linguistically derived from Lucia or another similar name.
- Association
- Namesake association with Lucita Lijertwood, who plays Bopsie in Horace Ové's Pressure (1975). Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Lucita appears in 6 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
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