Lucy

2,875 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lucy in the 2020 census, making it the 10,625th most common in the country. That is about one person in 104,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,875
Rank: 10,625th
How common: 1 in 104,000
Per 100,000: 0.96

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

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 from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lucy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lucy

Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863–1935)British fashion designer
Tom Lucy (born 1988)British rower

People named Lucy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lucy

Also a first name

Lucy has been given to 237,613 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.