In Suzanne Collins’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Lucy Gray’s surname is Baird.
Lucy Gray Baird is the female tribute from District 12 in the novel, which takes place decades before the original Hunger Games trilogy. Coriolanus Snow is assigned to mentor her during the 10th Hunger Games.
The surname is sometimes confused with names from the original trilogy, especially Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne. Lucy Gray is not a relative of Katniss; their connection is primarily geographic, since both are associated with District 12.
The character’s name also echoes “Lucy Gray,” a poem by William Wordsworth. The novel’s title combines Lucy Gray’s identity with Snow’s symbolic association with songbirds and snakes.