Lucy
{{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Infobox given name 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 variantsEdit
- 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).
PeopleEdit
- Lucy (Australopithecus) (c. 3,000,000 BCE), fossil also known as AL 288-1
- 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 Bloom (born 1973), South African businesswoman
- 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 Chege (born 1976), Kenyan volleyball player
- Lucy Christalnigg, Austro-Hungarian countess and aristocrat
- Lucy Collett (born 1989), British glamour model
- Lucy Collinson, British scientist
- Lucy DeCoutere (born 1970), actress, best known for playing "Lucy" on the Trailer Park Boys
- Lucy Clementina Davies (1795–1879), British writer
- Lucy Dacus (born 1995), American musician
- Lucy Davis (born 1973), English actress
- Lucy Davis (born 1992), American equestrian
- Lucy Dickenson (1980–2012), Welsh humanitarian and social entrepreneur
- Lucy Salisbury Doolittle (1832–1908), American philanthropist
- Lucy Duff Grant (1894–1984) British nurse leader
- 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 Foulkes, British academic psychologist
- 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 (cyclist) (born 1990), British professional road and track cyclist
- Lucy Martin (actress)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), Canadian novelist
- Lucy Mecklenburgh (born 1991), English actress and entrepreneur
- Lucy Montgomery (born 1975), British voice actress
- Lucy Muyoyeta, Zambian women's rights activist
- 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
AnimalsEdit
- Lucy (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee raised as a human
Fictional charactersEdit
- Lucy, a character in the Jaws movie franchise
- 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
- Lucy "Tom-Tom" Wyman in the movie 13 Going on 30
- 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 Template:Div col end
See alsoEdit
- Loosie
- Luci
- Lusi (disambiguation)
- Lucie
- Lucey
- Lucia (disambiguation)
- the star BPM 37093, nicknamed "Lucy"
- Lucy the elephant, tourist attraction in Margate, New Jersey, United States
- Lucy (spacecraft)