Lucy

Where Lucy comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lucy
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Lucy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #44 among girls, with 590 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1968
    Lucy Liu born
    American actress
  3. 1968
    Lucy Lawless born
    New Zealand actress
  4. 2025
    Peak, #24
    6,176 babies named Lucy, the most in any year.
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #24 after sinking to #587 in 1978.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Lucy Liu · American actress, born 1968
  • Lucy Lawless · New Zealand actress, born 1968
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery · Canadian writer, 1874–1942
  • Lucy Stone · American abolitionist and suffragist, 1818–1893
  • Lucy Webb Hayes · First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881, 1831–1889

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.