Lucy

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English variation of Lucia, Latin
"light"

Lucy Origin and Meaning

The name Lucy is a girl's name of English, Latin origin meaning "light".

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 Lui 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.

# 40 in the US

Lucy Rank in US Top 1000

# 23 on Nameberry

Lucy Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Lucy Popularity

Famous People Named Lucy

  • 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"