The LUCY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,005	9902	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	1,533	3770	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+1472	-6132	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	127	11555	0.001	8
United Kingdom	619	7607	0.001	13

Top States for LUCY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	326	2780	0.005	46
Alabama	234	2740	0.005	53
California	222	11683	0.001	7
Michigan	137	9360	0.001	14
Arkansas	134	2665	0.005	50
Top States for LUCY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	41	2668	0.006	64
Alabama	234	2740	0.005	53
Arkansas	134	2665	0.005	50
Virginia	326	2780	0.005	46
New Hampshire	45	3932	0.004	36

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LUCY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LUCY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LUCY in Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LUCY by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LUCY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LUCY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LUCY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LUCY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	437	14.54
White (Hispanic)	54	1.8
Mixed Race	32	1.06
Asian/Pacific	28	0.93
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.37
White (Caucasian)	2,443	81.3

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LUCY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LUCY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUCY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.