# Lucy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lucy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “light”, “lucy in the sky with diamonds” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈlusi/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Lu |
| Variant spellings | Lucie |
| US babies named this | 237,613 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 644 / 236,969 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 71,001, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English Lucy, from Old French Lucie (notably after the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracuse), from Latin Lucia (feminine of Lucius, a Roman praenomen), from lux (“light”). The name of the Australopithecus skeleton came from the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, which was being played repeatedly at the dig site camp at the time of the discovery. The slang term for LSD also derives from the song name, which many believe is essentially a reference to the drug.

## What it means

Lucy is grouped under light.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,704 | 73 |
| 2012 | 3,818 | 66 |
| 2013 | 3,948 | 66 |
| 2014 | 4,299 | 61 |
| 2015 | 4,558 | 55 |
| 2016 | 4,604 | 55 |
| 2017 | 4,604 | 52 |
| 2018 | 4,378 | 51 |
| 2019 | 4,477 | 48 |
| 2020 | 4,369 | 50 |
| 2021 | 4,457 | 48 |
| 2022 | 4,448 | 48 |
| 2023 | 4,884 | 40 |
| 2024 | 5,425 | 34 |
| 2025 | 6,176 | 25 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 7 | 3,474 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,768 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,790 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,901 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,163 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,411 |
| 1989 | 8 | 5,994 |
| 1990 | 7 | 6,886 |
| 2004 | 9 | 7,939 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,902 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,594 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,279 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,477 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,569 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,392 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,228 | 23 |
| 2012 | 1,908 | 27 |
| 2013 | 1,683 | 28 |
| 2014 | 1,664 | 30 |
| 2015 | 1,525 | 32 |
| 2016 | 1,273 | 43 |
| 2017 | 1,089 | 49 |
| 2018 | 910 | 61 |
| 2019 | 882 | 61 |
| 2020 | 755 | 69 |
| 2021 | 607 | 85 |
| 2022 | 540 | 90 |
| 2023 | 419 | 117 |
| 2024 | 392 | 123 |
| 2025 | 346 | 143 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Llúcia
- Chinese: 露西, 路濟亞 /路济亚
- Czech: Lucie
- Danish: Lucia
- Dutch: Lucia
- Esperanto: Lucia, Lucino
- Finnish: Lucia
- French: Lucie
- German: Lucia, Luzia
- Greek: Λουκία
- Hungarian: Lúcia, Luca
- Italian: Lucia
- Latvian: Lūcija
- Lithuanian: Liucija
- Norwegian: Lucia
- Polish: Łucja
- Portuguese: Lúcia, Luzia
- Russian: Лю́сия, Лю́си, Люси́, Лю́ция
- Scottish Gaelic: Liùsaidh
- Slovak: Lucia

## People named Lucy

- Lucy Liu, American actress (born 1968)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (1874–1942)
- Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)
- Lucy Bronze, English footballer (born 1991)
- Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881
- Lucy Boynton, British actress
- Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (1853–1942)
- Lucy Punch, British actress
- Lucy Fry, Australian actress
- Lucy Ayoub, Arab-Israeli television host and actress of paternal Palestinian descent
- Lucy Hawking, English journalist and novelist
- Lucy Pinder, British actress and model

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.