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I am pretty sure here in Australia it's a brand of soap!

I like the assocation to the latin for Light and as such am connsidering it myself as a nickname for a Lucy- name. As a Yank, I say it more like Lucks too, thanks to that soap powder. I can easily see Lux as looks in another country however. And I like it for whatever that's worth! :)

There is a Jeffrey Eugenides novel called "The Virgin Suicides", and Lux is one of the, um, promiscuous main characters. I'd never heard the name before I read the book, so now it has a wild connotation to me.

I don't like it

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I just dislike the sound of it (with either pronunciation). I have a very hard time thinking of it as a name.

I really can't stand it as a given name. The sound doesn't appeal to me at all, no matter how you say it, and my first association is with Satan's piano bar in the Lucifer comics--which is to say that it doesn't sound like a person name to me, really. ^^;;;

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If I met one, I think maybe I'd like it better, but at this point, I don't understand what people see in it.

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This message was edited 7/1/2008, 6:50 AM

It seems like the name of a romantic massage lotion, scented candle (again, romantic) or in general just some sort of unneeded "lux"urious present for an anniversary or honeymoon. But you're right, I'm pronouncing it Lucks. Lukes doesn't change the image it evokes, though. It's a cool name and all, but I just wouldn't use it.

I'm not American and I say Lux as lucks (those famous soap flakes are to blame!).