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Lucy
Pronounced /ˈlusi/
Rank in 2024
#34
Born in 2024
5,396
Peak year
2024 · #34
Origin
Latin
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5,396 girls were named Lucy, about 1 in every 299.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 230,743 girls have been named Lucy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Lucy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 2.7Greatest1901–27
- 1.4Silent1928–45
- 0.7Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 1.1Gen Z1997–12
- 2.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 55,876 babies, 2.73 per 1,000. Silent: 28,693 babies, 1.39 per 1,000. Boomers: 24,050 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,701 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,163 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Z: 32,767 babies, 1.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 54,404 babies, 2.68 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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.
- A female given name from Latin.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /ˈlusi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Lucy, CC BY-SA 4.0.