Lucy

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Latin.
• derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
• The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was.
• The drug LSD.

Origin

• From Middle English Lucy, from Old French Lucie, from Lucia, name of a Sicilian martyr, from the Latin feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lucius, from lux. The name of the Australopithecus skeleton came from the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which the discoverers were listening to at the time. The song also gave its name to the slang term for LSD, as many believe it is essentially a reference to the drug.