In addition to the “linguistic, spiritual, and family reasons”:http:\/\/lucyboyd.com\/about\/ behind Lucy’s naming, we were aware of a number of cultural references tucked away in her name — most of which we think are really cool. Here are the ones we know about already: <\/p>\n
* *Lucy* Pevensie, the youngest of the children in C. S. Lewis’s _Chronicles of Narnia_
\n* *Lucy* Van Pelt of Charles Schulz’s _Peanuts_
\n* Lucille Ball’s “I Love *Lucy*” (a declaration that certainly applies around here!)
\n* *Lucy* the younger sister in Lynda Barry’s “_The Good Times Are Killing Me_”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/157061105X\/octothorppres-20 (a book we read the day after we first thought of calling our baby this, in November 2005)
\n* “*Lucy* Liu”:http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005154\/, an actress known for her role as Alex in “_Charlie’s Angels_”:http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0160127\/
\n* “Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes” — from the Beatles’ “*Lucy* in the Sky with Diamonds” (thanks, Uncle Jim!)
\n* *Lucy* the 3.18-million-year-old Hominid fossil (herself “named after the Beatles’ Lucy”:http:\/\/www.asu.edu\/clas\/iho\/lucy.html#name), once the oldest known
\n* even “Loose *Lucy*” by the Grateful Dead (though we hope our Lucy won’t treat her man so bad)<\/p>\n
But we’re sure there are many others. What other uses of the name _Lucy_ or _Lucia_ in literature, film, song, or story have we missed? Please add a comment to let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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