girls:
225.3k births since 1880
#177 (97th percentile)
boys:
636 births since 1881
#3950 (14th percentile)
overall:
225.9k births since 1880
#354 (95th percentile)
The name Lucy is the #354 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 225,935 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #177 (96.9% percentile) for all time with 225,299 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,950 (13.8% percentile) for all time with 636 births since 1881.
Lucy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys).
The name Lucy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lucy reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 96.1% percentile (ranked #38) with 2,777 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 6,181 births per million (ranked 80.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lucy ranks #38 for girls (96.1% percentile) with 2,777 births per million, which is 44.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lucy reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #526) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 69 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lucy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lucy is pronounced as LUE-see, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW1 S IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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