Lucy — #34 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lucy

The Social Security Administration has registered 230,743 babies named Lucy between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lucy currently holds the #34 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 5,396 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lucy performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 42,018 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lucy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 17,688 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lucy in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lucy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 230,743 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.