Lucy
Meaning of Lucy
Lucy comes from the Latin Lucia, the feminine form of Lucius, and is generally explained as meaning light, from lux. The name spread through Christian devotion to Saint Lucy of Syracuse, a fourth-century martyr and patron saint of the blind and of sight; her feast day falls in December. The English pronunciation is LOO-see in both American and British usage.
In literature and culture, Lucy is familiar as Lucy Pevensie, the youngest of the Pevensie children in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and as the name of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil known as Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has also kept the name in common reference. Among notable bearers, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables, and Lucy Liu is an American actress and producer.
It was common in the late nineteenth century, ranking No. 44 in 1880, then declined sharply: by 1978 it had fallen to No. 587. It began climbing again in the 1980s and returned to the top 100 in 2010. In 2025, it ranked No. 24 with 6,176 babies given the name, both its best rank and highest yearly count.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as LOO-see (/'luːsi/)
U.S. Popularity Chart
States Popularity Chart
Notable People Named Lucy
| Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author whose Anne of Green Gables launched a prolific career and made Green Gables on Prince Edward Island a lasting literary landmark. |
| Lucy Liu is an American actress, producer, and artist who broke barriers for Asian American representation, earned major awards and Emmy nominations, and in 2019 became the second Chinese American woman with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
| Lucy Lawless - Lucille Frances Lawless is a New Zealand actress and director best known for Xena Warrior Princess, Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, and since 2019 the lead role in My Life Is Murder. |
| Lucy Li is an American professional golfer who at 11 in 2014 became the youngest qualifier for the US Womens Amateur and US Womens Open, set age records in the Public Links, won her age group at the inaugural Drive Chip and Putt, and trained with coach Jim McLean. |
| Lucy Elizabeth Dacus is an American singer and songwriter, guitarist, and record producer from Richmond, Virginia, known for No Burden in 2016, Historian in 2018, Home Video in 2021, and Forever is a Feeling in 2025. |
| English American singer and songwriter Lucy Woodward has released music on Atlantic, Verve, and GroundUP, collaborated with stars like Rod Stewart and Barbra Streisand, and co wrote a Top 40 hit for Stacie Orrico. |
| Lucy Rose Parton, known as Lucy Rose, is an English singer songwriter with UK charting, acclaimed albums from her 2012 Columbia debut Like I Used To to 2024s This Aint The Way You Go Out, and she founded Real Kind Records in 2020. |
| Lucy Maria Powell is a British Labour and Cooperative politician, MP for Manchester Central since 2012, who served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from July 2024 to September 2025 and is seen as soft left. |
| Lucy Turnbull - Lucinda Mary Turnbull is an Australian businesswoman and philanthropist who became the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney and later led the Greater Sydney Commission, and she is married to former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. |
| Lucy Diggs Slowe was an American educator and athlete, the first Black woman Dean of Women at a US university, and a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first African American sorority. |
| Lucy Benjamin is an English actress best known for playing Lisa Fowler in EastEnders, after roles in Close to Home, Press Gang and Jupiter Moon, and she was nominated at the 2001 National Television Awards. |
| Lucy May Cranwell was a New Zealand botanist and palynology pioneer who became curator of botany at Auckland Museum at 21 in 1929 and inspired a generation of Auckland children to love plants. |
| Lucy O'Brien - Lucy OBrien is a British author and journalist specializing in women in music. |
| Lucy Durack is an Australian actress and singer known for playing Glinda in Wicked, Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, and TV roles in Doctor Doctor and Sisters. |
