Lucy
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About Lucy
A versatile classic, Lucy is both sweet and solid, a saint's name, and the heroine of several great novels. First fashionable in England and Wales, Lucy is now a popular choice in the US, The Netherlands, and New Zealand.
The English form of the Roman Lucia, Lucy derives from the Latin word lux, meaning "light." Once given to girls born at dawn, Lucy is also associated with Saint Lucia, the patron saint of the blind.
Lucy has a wide range of namesakes, from the bossy friend in the Peanuts comic, to psychedelic "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," to the rash and zany heroine of I Love Lucy.
It is a name with a rich literary history, chosen for the heroines of Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette, E.M. Forster's A Room With A View, Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy, and C. S Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia - just to name a few.
Beyond fiction, Lucy Stone was an important American activist, Lucy Worsley is a successful author and historian, and Lucy Liu is an actress who has imparted strength and style to the name.
Simple but sophisticated, playful but grounded, it is no wonder Lucy is a popular choice. Given to over 4000 girls in the US each year, it is a classic that doesn't feel dusty.
If you love Lucy, but don't love its popularity, you could consider one of its many variants. From vintage Lucille, to the musical Lucetta, to the fresh, unexpected Lux; from nickname-y Lou to sleek Luciana, there are plenty of possibilities.
Pronounced LOO-see.
As of October 2026, Lucy ranked #25 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #22.
Editor's take: The name Lucy is a girl's name of English, Latin origin meaning "light".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #61 | 4,298 | 2,406 |
| 2015 | #55 | 4,555 | 2,551.7 |
| 2016 | #55 | 4,604 | 2,598.2 |
| 2017 | #52 | 4,604 | 2,666.7 |
| 2018 | #51 | 4,378 | 2,573.7 |
| 2019 | #48 | 4,476 | 2,666.9 |
| 2020 | #50 | 4,367 | 2,701.4 |
| 2021 | #48 | 4,452 | 2,713.2 |
| 2022 | #48 | 4,444 | 2,709.5 |
| 2023 | #40 | 4,882 | 3,042.5 |
| 2024 | #34 | 5,396 | 3,330.5 |
| 2025 | #25 | 6,176 | 3,842.5 |
World rankings
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Lucy on lists
Famous Lucys
- Lucille Désirée "Lucy" Ball
American actress
- Lucy Stone
American suffragist and abolitionist
- Lucy Alexis Liu
American actress
- Lucille Frances "Lucy" Lawless
New Zealand actress
- Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery
Canadian novelist
- Lucy Burns
American suffragist
- Karen Lucille "Lucy" Hale
American actress & singer
- Lucinda Margaret "Lucy" Grealy
American poet
- Lucy
Mae Beacock, English actress
- Lucy Rose (Parton)
English singer,songwriter
- Lucy Gordon
pen name of Christine Sparks Fiorotto, English novelist
- Lucy Gordon
English model/actress
- Lucy Ursula Griffiths
English actress
- Lucy Kaplansky
American singer,songwriter
- Lucy Louise Knisley
American cartoonist and musician
- Lucy Haeran Koh
American federal judge
- Lucy Kellaway
English journalist
- Lucy Lippard
American author and critic
- Lucy McKenzie
Scottish artist
- Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons
American labor activist
- Lucy Orta
English visual artist
- Lucy Walker
English film director
- Lucy Spraggan
English musician
- Lucy Deakins
American actress
- Lucy Danziger
American magazine editor
- Lucy Elizabeth Fry
Australian actress
- Lucy Thurber
American playwright
- Lucy Owen
Welsh news anchor
- Lucy Wainwright Roche
American singer,songwriter
- Lucy O'Brien
English author and journalist
- Lucy Torres
Gomez, Filipina actress
- Lucy Punch
English actress
- Lucy Champion
Irish singer of music group Anuna
- Lucia Roberta "Lucy" Tough Bronze
English football player
- Lucy Kane
English singer; daughter of model Linda Lusardi and Samuel Kane
- Lucy Chet DeVito
American actress, daughter of actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman
- Lucy
Belle Guthrie, daughter of Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins
- Lucy Shackell
daughter of actress Fiona Fullerton and Neil Shackell
- Lucy Jane Bonin
daughter of author Jennifer Weiner Bonin
- Lucy Jane Savant (b. 2005)
daughter of actors Laura Leighton and Doug Savant
- Lucy Elizabeth Linch (b. 2007)
daughter of legal commentator and TV host Nancy Grace
- Lucy Brown (b. 2008)
daughter of singer Zac Brown
- Lucy Vallely
daughter of pro skateboarder Mike Vallely
- Lucy Jean Bemis (b. 2013)
daughter of singers Sherri DuPree of Eisley and Max Bemis of Say Anything
- Lucy Thomas Manning (b. 2013)
daughter of football player Eli Manning
- Lucy Marie Wolf (b. 2014)
daughter of actor Scott Wolf
- Lucy Day (b. 2015)
daughter of golfer Jason Day
- Lucy Iglesias (b. 2017)
daughter of Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias and former pro tennis player Anna Kournikova
- Lucy Deru (b. 2018)
daughter of YouTube vloggers Julie & Landon Deru of Deru Crew Vlogs
- Lucy Katherine Pinder
English Model & Actress
Lucy in pop culture
- Lucy Pevensie
character in "The Chronicles of Narnia" book series
- Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt
character in the Peanuts series
- Lucy Ricardo
character on TV's "I Love Lucy" played by Lucille Ball
- Lucy Honeychurch
character in "A Room with a View"
- Lucy Condon
main character on TV's "Alien Dawn"
- Lucy Shapiro
character in "Good In Bed"
- Lucy
character in "Living Dead Girl" by Elizabeth Scott
- Lucy Pearl
R&B group
- Lucy Snowe
main character in "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte
- Lucy Gringe
character from the Septimus Heap series
- Lucy Weasley
daughter of Percy and Audrey Weasley in the Harry Potter series
- Lucy Lane
Lois Lane's younger sister in the DC Universe
- Lucy
doll in Maurice Sendak's "Little Bear"
- "Put Your Shoes On Lucy
" song performed by Petula Clark and Anne Shelton
- Lucy Rippinghall
character in G. A. Henty's, Friends Though Divided
- Lucy Diamond
character in movie D.E.B.S
- "Lucy
" song by the band Skillet
- Lucy
character from TV's "The Big Bang Theory"
- Lucy Whitmore
Drew Barrymore's character in movie "50 First Dates"
- "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
song by The Beatles
- Lucy Quinn Fabray
character on TV's "Glee"
- Lucy
character in movie "Across the Universe"
- Lucy Moran
character on TV's "Twin Peaks"
- Lucy
character in anime "Elfen Lied"
- Lucy Coe
character on soap "General Hospital"
- Lucy McClane
daughter in the Die Hard movies
- Lucy Westenra
character in "Dracula"
- Lucy Muir
main character in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"
- Lucy Proek
character on TV's "Fortysomething"
- "Lucy
" song by Hanson
- Lucy the Elephant
landmark
- "Lucy in the Sky"
anonymously written novel
- Lucy Kingston
character in G. A. Henty's, With Lee in Virginia
- Lucy Saxon
character on TV's "Doctor Who"
- Lucy Messer
character on TV's "CSI:NY"
- Lucy Carlyle
character in "Lockwood & Co"
- Lucy Katherine Beale
character on British soap "Eastenders"
- Lucy Camden
Kinkirk, character on TV's "7th Heaven"
- Lucy Barker
character in the musical and movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Lucy
character on TV's "The Bletchley Circle"
- Lucy Clinton
character in G. A. Henty's, The Dash for Khartoum
- Lucy Spiller
character from TV's Dirt
- Lucy Steele
character in 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen
- Lucy Stillman
a character in the video game series, 'Assassin's Creed'
- Lucy Oreill
character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- Lucy Loud
a character from the Nickelodeon cartoon "The Loud House"
- Lucy Ewing
character on TV's "Dallas"
- Lucy Pennykettle
character in the book "The Fire Within" (2001)
- Lucy
name used for one of the earliest humanoid bodies discovered
- Lucy Heartfilia
character in the anime Fairy Tail
- Lucy
a character in Kiera Cass's "The Selection"
- Lucy Harmon
character played by Liv Tyler in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty"
- Lucy Marlowe
genderqueer character in Taylor Robin's webcomic "Never Satisfied"
- Lucy Preston
character on TV's "Timeless"
- Lucy Cola
character in the 2019 film "Lucy in the Sky"
- Lucy Miller
Scarlett Johansson's character in the 2014 film "Lucy"
- Lucy
main character of Margaret Atwood's short story "Death by Landscape"
- Lucy Eleanor Moderatz
main character played by Sandra Bullock in "While You Were Sleeping"
- Lucy Kelson
main character played by Sandra Bullock in "Two Weeks Notice"
- Lucy Gray Baird
character in Hunger Games prequel "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes"
- Lucyna "Lucy' Kushinada
character in anime "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners"
- Lucy MacLean
protagonist of the Fallout TV series
- "Lucy Gray"
A ballad in William Wordsworth's collection of poems, "Lyrical Ballads"
- Lucy Chen
character in TV’s “The Rookie”
Variations & nicknames
- LucyaPolish
- LucilaSpanish
- LizijaRussian
- LucaSlavic
- LucieFrench
- LuzSpanish
- LuciellaItalian
- LuciSlavic
- LleucuWelsh
- LucetteFrench
- LucikaSlavic
- LucynaPolish
- LuzieGerman
- LuckaSlavic
- LuciaSpanish
- LuziGerman
- LuziaPortuguese
- LucindeFrench
- LucianaSpanish
- LucillaSpanish
- LucindaSpanish
- LucienneFrench
- LucidaFrench
- LuiseachIrish Gaelic