Lucy? Too cute for adults?

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Thoughts on Lucy, I love it for a little girl but maybe too cute for an adult, will she dislike it when she's older?

In my head the adult Lucy fits in everywhere, Lucinda breaks the mould.

My four year old granddaughter is Lucy my daughter also has an adult friend also called Lucy. It is a beautiful name

Beautiful classic! Suits all ages 😊

No I think Lucy is a classic name, doesn't sound babyish

A lovely classic name (as is Emma) and not drippy!

My mil is a lucy
She's an angel-the strongest and bravest woman I've ever met-we adore her

However I work with a lucie and she's a really nasty bitch!

It depends on the person,not a name

It's a classic name like Alice,Emily or Sophie

Beautiful name, suits every age, and doesn’t identify you as a particular age or demographic. Pretty but not cutesy, easy to spell and pronounce - perfect! Off the top of my head I can think of my friend’s mum aged 70, my cousin in her 50s, another cousin of 30, two I was at school with who are now 40, a local 14-year-old, NCT friend’s 12-year-old, and my neighbour’s 3-year-old. Plus the excellent Lucy Mangan, and Lucy in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!

It’s not a cutesy name at all.
It’s not a diminutive, like Katie, Becky or Debbie mentioned above (Sally sometimes is, sometimes isn’t!) but, like Sophie, Wendy and Amy, is a proper full name that’s been around for a very very long time so has seen many women through their whole lives, young and old.

Its a nice, friendly name.

Indeed you don't, they're generally fully grown adults. So the point I'm making, in relation to the topic in question, clearly went whoosh over your head.

So the point you are making is that adult women have women’s names? Sorry - I’m not trying to be obtuse but I genuinely have no idea what point you’re making!

I would say the only one of the names you identified above that’s similar to Lucy is Sophie: the others are 70s/80s (I know you insist you weren’t making this point but I don’t know what point you were making!)

I think she was just trying to make the point that ending in a y/ie sound doesn’t make a name “cutesy”. But the choice of examples was confusing!

My, two cousins of mine are called Lucy. One is in her seventies and the other is 40 this year. Never thought their name wasn´t suitable for adults. If she were called Poppy, Peach or Apple, yeah, I would think it. Lucy is a classic name.

I wasn't trying to suggest it was a diminutive (although it could be, for Lucinda, Lucille etc). I was just making a point that not all ie/y names, diminutive or not, sound cutesy and that plenty of grown adults do have a name ending in that 'cutesy' sound.

The variety of different names I provided, as examples, was deliberate. I wasn't trying to suggest they were all the same type of name.

I see - sorry. My own Lucy was awake half the night, I’m slow today

OP was questioning whether Lucy was suitable for an adult. I provided a whole different range of names, common among adults, to make a point that y/ie names are fine for adults. I'm not sure what's so difficult to get? You're entitled to disagree of course, but i thought the point was quite obvious. Just goes to show how you never can tell how people are going to interpret things on the internet

Oh yes I know… I was agreeing with you (I should have said!) I was using your post to agree with and elaborate on the point made by you and others.

They are all different types of name that work for adults; some diminutive, some not, and none of them cutesy (getting fed up of that word! 😁)

Sorry, I misunderstood. As I said, you never can tell how people are going to interpret things on the internet! 😂😂😂

I think Lucy is good for all ages. It's a lovely name

Lucy Lastic

It’s my name and I don’t think it’s especially cute! Why would it be? Plenty of girls’ names end in an ‘ie’ sound.

It’s a traditional name - and I know a fair few adult Lucy’s in very professional jobs (Doctor, Solicitor etc) so in theory, no not too cute.

Personally though I do find it has a cuteish sound (as do a lot of the ie/y ending names to me), and combined with the shortening “Luce” (Loose), it isn’t my cup of tea. Really doubt she would hate it or have any issues though- it’s fairly well used name across the generations.

The adult ones I can think of are a GP and a teacher.

I love it.

No I think it's too cute, it's a nice name OP!

That was supposed to say "I don't think it's too cute" 😂