Name: Lucy
Gender: Female
Usage: Lucy, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Lucy are in general originating from Belgium, Ecuador, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Lucy across the world, see Lucie.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Lucy is: Light, Bringer of light.
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Numerology of the first name Lucy: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Lucy is ranked on the 360th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 1824000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.025% of the population. The name Lucy has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Lucy for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Lucy is 6 August.
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History and Origin
Lucy is an English and French feminine given name derived from 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. Lucy is also an American, Australian, Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and French surname.
The English Lucy surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century (see also De Lucy).
Lucy is a very popular first name for women (#208 out of 4276) and also a very popular surname or last name for all people (#9218 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)
1 English: from Old French Lucie, the vernacular form of Lucia. It is sometimes assumed that Lucy is a pet form of Lucinda, but there is no etymological justification for this assumption. It was in fairly widespread use in the Middle Ages, and increased greatly in popularity in the 18th century.
2 Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Luíseach.
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