Lucy

Lucy
	Saint Lucy, by Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430–1477)
Pronunciation	/ˈluːsi/ LOO-see; French: [lysi]
Gender	Female
Name day	13 December
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	Light
Region of origin	Ancient Rome
Other names
Related names	Luci, Luce, Lucia, Lucie, Lucey, Lucio, Lucile, Luciana, Luciano, Lucinda, Cindy, Luca, Luz

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Lucy is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning as of light (born at dawn or daylight, maybe also shiny, or of light complexion). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lucie, Lucia, and Luzia.

The English Lucy surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on the Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century (see also De Lucy).

Feminine name variants

Luíseach (Irish)
Lusine, Լուսինե, Լուսինէ (Armenian)
Lucija, Луција (Serbian)
Lucy, Люси (Bulgarian)
Lutsi, Луци (Macedonian)
Lutsija, Луција (Macedonian)
Liùsaidh (Scottish Gaelic)
Liucija (Lithuanian)
Liucilė (Lithuanian)
Lūcija, Lūsija (Latvian)
Lleucu (Welsh)
Llúcia (Catalan)
Loukia, Λουκία (Greek)
Luca (Hungarian)
Luce (French, Italian)
Lucetta (English)
Lucette (French)
Lucy, Lusia, Lucia, Luciana, Lucinda (Indonesian)
Luçia, Luçie, Luçije (Albanian)
Lúcia (Portuguese)
Lucía (Spanish)
Lucia (Danish, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish)
Luciana (Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish)
Lucie (French, Czech)
Luciella (Italian)
Lucienne (French)
Lucija (Croatian, Slovene)
Lucila (Spanish)
Lucilla (Italian)
Lucille (English, French)
Lucinda (English, Portuguese)
Lucinde (French)
Lucita (Spanish)
Łucja (Polish)
Lucja (Polish)
Lucy (English)
Lucylia (Polish)
Lucyna (Polish)
Luz (Spanish)
Luzi (German)
Luzia (German, Portuguese)
Luzie (German).

People (and other primates)

Lucy (Australopithecus) (c. 3,000,000 BCE), fossil also known as AL 288-1
Lucy (chimpanzee), well-known case of a chimpanzee raised as a human
Saint Lucy (283–304), Christian saint and martyr
Lucy Morris Chaffee Alden (1836–1912), American author, educator, hymnwriter
Lucy Alexander (born 1971), English television presenter
Lucy Atkinson (1817–1893), British explorer
Lucille Ball (1911–1989), American actress and comedian remembered for her character "Lucy"
Lucy Barnes (1780–1809), American writer
Lucy Beaumont (born 1983), English comedian
Lucy Boynton (born 1994), English and American actress
Lucy Ann Brooks (1835–1926), English temperance advocate
Lucy Bronze (born 1991), English footballer
Lucy Burns (1879–1966), American suffragist and women's rights advocate
Lucy Wood Butler (1820–1895), American temperance leader
Lucy Christalnigg, Austro-Hungarian countess and aristocrat
Lucy Collett (born 1989), British glamour model
Lucy DeCoutere (born 1970), actress, best known for playing "Lucy" on the Trailer Park Boys
Lucy Clementina Davies (1795–1879), British writer
Lucy Davis (born 1973), English actress
Lucy Davis (born 1992), American equestrian
Lucy Salisbury Doolittle (1832–1908), American philanthropist
Lucy Durack (born 1982), Australian actress and singer
Lucy Edwards, British disability activist and educator
Lucy Fallon (born 1995), British actress
Lucy Faust, American actress
Lucy Fisher (born 1949), American film producer
Lucy Fleming (born 1947), British actress
Lucy Nettie Fletcher (1886–1918), nurse
Lucy Flores (born 1979), American politician
Lucy Frazer (born 1972), British politician
Lucy Virginia French (1825–1881), American author
Lucy Fry (born 1992), Australian actress
Lucy Furr (born 1975), American professional wrestler
Lucy Gordon (1980–2009), British actress and model
Lucy Greenish (1888 – 1976), a New Zealand architect
Lucy Gunning (born 1964), English filmmaker, installation artist, sculptor, video artist and lecturer
Lucy Hale (born 1989), American actress
Lucy M. Hall (1843–1907), American physician, writer
Lucy Hawking (born 1970), English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist
Lucy Hayes (1831–1889), First Lady of the United States
Lucy Hockings, New Zealand born television presenter on BBC World News
Lucy Hooper (1816–1841), 19th-century American poet
Lucy Hamilton Hooper (1835–1893), American poet, journalist, editor, playwright
Lucy Jones (born 1955), American seismologist
Lucy Lameck (1934–1992), Tanzanian politician
Lucy Stedman Lamson (1857–1926), American business woman, educator
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), American teacher, poet, author
Lucy de László (1870–1950), Irish musician and socialite
Lucy Lawless (born 1968), New Zealand actress and singer
Lucy Letby (born 1990), English serial killer
Lucy Liu (born 1968), American actress
Lucy A. Mallory (1846–1920), American writer, publisher, newspaper editor, spiritualist
Lucy Martin (born 1990), British professional road and track cyclist
Lucy Mecklenburgh (born 1991), English actress and entrepreneur
Lucy Montgomery (born 1975), British voice actress
Lucy Mvubelo (1920–2000), South African trade unionist
Lucy Olsen (born 2003), American basketball player
Lucy Parham (born 1966), British concert pianist
Lucy Parsons (1853–1942), American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist communist
Lucy Partington (1952–1974), British murder victim
Lucy Pinder (born 1983), English glamour model and actress
Lucy Porter (born 1973), English comedian and actress
Lucy Punch (born 1977), English actress
Lucy Speed (born 1976), English actress
Lucy Qinnuayuak (1915–1982), Inuit Canadian artist
Lucy Simon (1940–2022), American composer for the theatre and of popular songs
Lucy Stone (1818–1893), American activist
Lucy Hobbs Taylor (1833–1910), American dentist and teacher
Lucy Temerlin (1964–1987), a chimpanzee known for her use of American Sign Language
Lucy Torres-Gomez (b.1974), Filipino actress and politician
Lucy Turnbull (born 1958), Australian businesswoman, philanthropist, former local government politician, and former First Lady of Australia
Lucy Verasamy (b. 1980), British weather forecaster
Lucy Hall Washington (1835–1913), American poet, social reformer
Lucy Wheelock (1857–1946), American educator, writer
Lucy Worsley (born 1973), English historian

Fictional characters

Lucy, a character in the 1995 American coming-of-age teen comedy movie Clueless
Lucy, a character in the webtoon series Adventures of God
Lucy, the Girl from the British-French series 64 Zoo Lane
Lucy, a character in the film K.G.F: Chapter 1
Lucy, a character in the TV series Trailer Park Boys
Lucy, the protagonist of the film Lucy
Lucy, a character in the video game Metal Gear Acid 2
Lucy, a character in the Cartoon Network animated series We Bare Bears
Lucy/Nyu, a character in the manga series Elfen Lied
Eponymous character in the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles, said to be based on a drawing of Lucy O'Donnell or the LSD abbreviation
- Lucy and the Diamonds, antagonists in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band based around the song
- Lucy Carrigan, a main character in the film Across the Universe based loosely around the song
- Lucy the Diamond Fairy, a character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise named after the song
Lucy Adams, a character in the TV series Not Going Out
Lucy Ashton, the female protagonist of the novel The Bride of Lammermoor
Lucy Barker, a character in the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Lucy Beale, a character in the TV series EastEnders
Lucy Camden-Kinkirk, a character in the TV series 7th Heaven
Lucy Carlyle, a character in the novel series Lockwood & Co.
Lucy Coe, a character in the TV series General Hospital
Lucy Cunningham-Schultz, a character in the radio drama Adventures in Odyssey
Lucy Dennison, a character in Richie Tankersley Cusick's books series The Unseen
Lucy Emerson, a character in the film The Lost Boys
Lucy Fernandez, a character in the TV series Degrassi
Lucy Fields, a character in the TV series Grey's Anatomy
Lucy Gray Baird, a character in the novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Lucy Harris, a character in the musical Jekyll & Hyde
Lucy Heartfilia, the main female protagonist of the manga series Fairy Tail
Lucy Honeychurch, the protagonist of the novel A Room with a View
Lucy Kisaragi, a character from Aikatsu!
Lucy Knight, a character in the TV series ER
Lucy Lane, a character in the Superman comics
Lucy Loud, a character in the TV series The Loud House
Lucy Maria Misora, a character in the visual novel ToHeart2
Lucy Mills, a character in the TV series Once Upon a Time
Lucy Muir, in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Lucy Pevensie, a character in the novel series Chronicles of Narnia
Lucy Preston, a character in the TV series Timeless
Lucy Quinn Fabray, a character in the TV series Glee
Lucy Ricardo, the star character of the TV series I Love Lucy
Lucy Robinson, a character in the TV series Neighbours
Lucy Romalotti, a character in the TV series The Young and the Restless
Lucy Simian, a character in the animated TV series The Amazing World of Gumball
Lucy Snowe, the heroine of the novel Villette
Lucy Steel, a character in the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Lucy Steele, a character in the novel Sense and Sensibility
Lucy Stillman, a character in the video game series Assassin's Creed
Lucy Tartan, a character in the novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Lucy Tsukioka, a character in the manga series Ayakashi Triangle
Lucy van Pelt, a character in the comic strip Peanuts
Lucy Westenra, a character in the novel Dracula
Lucy Whitmore, a character in the 2004 film 50 First Dates
Lucy Wilde, a character in the animated films Despicable Me 2', Despicable Me 3, and Despicable Me 4
Lucyna Kushinada, or Lucy, a character in the animated TV series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Wyldstyle, or Lucy, a character in the animated film The Lego Movie

Feminine name variants

People (and other primates)

Fictional characters

See also