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Lucy

Girls' name · Current perennial

Living in the US
~137,300 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#24 among girls
Births in 2025
6,184 237,613 since 1880
Typical age
15 years, median

Lucy popularity over time

Lucy rank by birth year, 1880–2025Lucy ranked #44 in 1880 and #24 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #24, in 2025.#100#2418901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2025: 6,184 births recorded as Lucy. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Lucy has spent 61 years inside the national top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #24, with 6,184 births that year. Over ten years the count has risen 36%.

Babies named Lucy per yearPeaks at 6,184 births in 2025.6,184 in 2025018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Lucy?

About 137,300 people named Lucy are alive in the United States today. That is out of 237,613 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Lucy?

Half of living Lucys are older than 15, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Lucy a current perennial name.

Your Lucy

Ages of living people named LucyHalf of living Lucys are older than 15 and half younger.median 15020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Lucy is most common

The name is concentrated in Vermont, at 3.5× the national rate. Utah, Alaska and New Hampshire follow.

Where Lucy is used more than average5 states use the name Lucy more than the national average.Alaska: 2.5× the national rateAKMaine: 2.4× the national rateMEVermont: 3.5× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: 2.5× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: 3.2× the national rateUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Lucy is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Vermont 115 3.5×
Utah 1,640 3.2×
Alaska 162 2.5×
New Hampshire 280 2.5×
Maine 245 2.4×

Lucy in England and Wales

ONS recorded 346 births named Lucy in 2025, ranking it #143. That is 54% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name 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”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Lucy

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Lucy Liu American actress 1968 80
Lucy Lawless New Zealand actress 1968 67
Lucy Maud Montgomery Canadian writer 1874–1942 67
Lucy Stone American abolitionist and suffragist 1818–1893 41
Lucy Webb Hayes First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881 1831–1889 39
Lucy Bronze English footballer 1991 38
Lucy Boynton British actress 1994 37
Lucy Punch British actress 1977 32
Photo credits (7)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Lucy

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Lucy was in 2025.

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