Lucy
Meaning of Lucy
Lucy unfurls from the Latin lux—pure light—like rosy dawn spreading across an antique Roman sky, and through the centuries her luminance has wandered gently from candlelit catacombs where Saint Lucia comforted the longing, into English gardens of story and song where C. S. Lewis’s brave child heroine held fast to hope, and onto bright American porches where generations still call the name with soft devotion. She carries the hush of Advent processions in Sweden, crowns woven with candles, yet wears equally well the silver-screen sparkle of Lucille Ball’s laughter and the scientific wonder of “Lucy,” our fossil link to earliest humanity; in every setting she remains an emblem of vision, awakening, and steadfast joy. Mapping her modern journey, one sees light ripple through recent U.S. birth records—modest embers in the 1970s, gathering into a steady sunrise by the new millennium, and now a radiant glow that places her comfortably among the nation’s fifty most chosen names—proof that parents still reach for brightness when they cradle tomorrow in their arms. Easy on the tongue—LOO-see—yet rich in silent history, Lucy is both hearth-warm and star-bright, a single syllable of solace promising that, whatever the age, a little light is always on its way.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as LOO-see (/'luːsi/)
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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 Elizabeth Kemp-Welch was a British artist famed for her horse paintings and the 1915 Black Beauty illustrations, celebrated in the early 1900s, later overlooked, and now revived. |
| 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. |
