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Sadie or Lucy?

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ThatOchreQuoter · 09/12/2025 10:43

Currently pregnant with baby number 2 and stuck between these two girls names. Our DD has a name that goes well with either. Thanks for any opinions ☺️

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Blueuggboots · 09/12/2025 10:44

Don’t like Sadie. Lucy is nicer.

Mammyloveswine · 09/12/2025 10:45

Lucy is a beautiful name!

TappaMcFeety · 09/12/2025 10:45

Love Sadie!

Melsy88 · 09/12/2025 10:45

I like Lucy, but love Sadie - so that would be my choice :)

luckylavender · 09/12/2025 10:47

Lucy

HugoYorway · 09/12/2025 11:14

I like both but they don't have the same vibe.
Lucy is a classic, but Sadie is a diminutive of Sarah.

TheSandgroper · 09/12/2025 12:41

Well, it’s either Lucy in the sky with diamonds or Sadie, the cleaning lady whose aching knees aren’t getting any younger.

HugoYorway · 09/12/2025 13:15

Lucy in the sky with diamonds or sexy Sadie? Martha my dear.

Moreteaandchocolate · 09/12/2025 14:29

Lucy - one of my favourite names. A pretty classic that still sounds modern.

RuthW · 09/12/2025 16:03

Sadie.

IsThisTheWaytoSlamMyPillow · 09/12/2025 16:07

I’ve always loved Lucy so this would be my favourite of the two. I see it as a name which suits every age from baby to adult, whereas I only envision Sadie as an adult (a middle aged one at that!).

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Myoldbear · 09/12/2025 16:12

I like Lucy best.

IdaGlossop · 09/12/2025 16:15

Lucy. I love the connection with light.

Itsnearlymybirthday · 09/12/2025 16:54

Sadie is lovely. Lucy is just ok.

Calliopespa · 09/12/2025 17:37

Lucy is lovely - and underused at present.

If you google the Sadie Cleaning Lady video it will put you right off: scantily clad ladies dancing about with maid's bonnets and lyrics such as "Scrub your floors/Do your chores/Dear old Sadie"

It's hard to think of anything more stomach-churningly misogynistic that could be put to such a light-hearted tune and has put me off the name for life.

It somehow manages to belittle both young healthy women (the dancers smiling inanely, like half-dressed 1950's housewives) and older women (her aching knee's not getting any younger/Her red detergent hands/ have for years not held a man's)

Cornflakegirl7 · 09/12/2025 18:16

Calliopespa · 09/12/2025 17:37

Lucy is lovely - and underused at present.

If you google the Sadie Cleaning Lady video it will put you right off: scantily clad ladies dancing about with maid's bonnets and lyrics such as "Scrub your floors/Do your chores/Dear old Sadie"

It's hard to think of anything more stomach-churningly misogynistic that could be put to such a light-hearted tune and has put me off the name for life.

It somehow manages to belittle both young healthy women (the dancers smiling inanely, like half-dressed 1950's housewives) and older women (her aching knee's not getting any younger/Her red detergent hands/ have for years not held a man's)

I haven't heard of/seen that!

I think of 'in search of little Sadie' by Bob Dylan. But then, I am not sure what that song is about-perhaps it's just as bad.

ChristmasinBrighton · 09/12/2025 18:38

Lucy

Jollyjoy · 09/12/2025 18:40

For me, Lucy is just dull as dishwater. Sadie much more interesting, more personality to the name.

Calliopespa · 09/12/2025 18:43

Cornflakegirl7 · 09/12/2025 18:16

I haven't heard of/seen that!

I think of 'in search of little Sadie' by Bob Dylan. But then, I am not sure what that song is about-perhaps it's just as bad.

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Neither had I, but people kept saying "Sadie, cleaning lady" which I thought was just a rhyme but then I heard it was a song and googled it and it is ...um, eye-opening in terms of what was once seen as acceptable! I think its from the 60's

everdine · 09/12/2025 18:45

Lucy is lovely!

alexdgr8 · 09/12/2025 18:45

Lucy is much better.

Sadie always looks sad and dismal to me.
It's not a proper name.

LuckyCharmz · 09/12/2025 18:49

Lucy. I don’t like the name Sadie at all.

Mosaic80 · 09/12/2025 18:53

Lucy is lovely. And surprisingly uncommon in my area at least. I haven't heard of any recently so not super popular.

namechanged221 · 09/12/2025 18:54

Lucy. It's a lovely name.

Sadie, no

DramaAlpaca · 09/12/2025 18:55

Lucy!