Meaning not yet researched.
Kacey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 211 in 2025. Its best rank was #577 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #577 in 1991; #1,118 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Kacey in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,118 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #577.
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Kacey: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 211 girls in 2025. Peak: #577 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 402 (1991).
In 2025, 211 US girls were named Kacey, making it the 1,118th most common girls’ name of the year, down 23 places from #1,095 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 225 girls named Kacey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #577, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 402. For comparison, it was #1,308 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 182 US boys were named Kacey, making it the 1,155th most common boys’ name of the year, down 112 places from #1,043 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 213 boys named Kacey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #997, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 220. For comparison, it was #4,467 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kacey in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 5 babies. In all, 15,265 US babies have been given the name, 78% of them girls and 22% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,798 babies named Kacey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,861 US girls were named Kacey; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 225. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,617 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kacey ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #580 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaci (10,183 babies since 1880), Kacy (6,047 babies since 1880), Kasie (4,223 babies since 1880) and Casey (194,775 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kacia, Kaicee and Kaycei are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kacia (274), Kaicee (129), Kaycei (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kacey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #580 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #674 | #753 |
| Michigan | 10 | #757 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #771 | #1,009 |
| Colorado | 6 | #846 | #828 |
| Maryland | 5 | #906 | #731 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #945 | #1,145 |
| Arizona | 6 | #968 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #968 | #1,666 |
| Washington | 6 | #981 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,110 | #810 |
| California | 22 | #1,167 | #1,403 |
| New York | 11 | #1,272 | #1,247 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,348 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,487 | #1,149 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,504 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 211 | #1,118 | 182 | #1,155 |
| 2024 | 225 | #1,095 | 213 | #1,043 |
| 2023 | 191 | #1,230 | 210 | #1,040 |
| 2022 | 202 | #1,194 | 202 | #1,081 |
| 2021 | 209 | #1,173 | 220 | #997 |
| 2020 | 185 | #1,233 | 163 | #1,186 |
| 2019 | 172 | #1,329 | 72 | #2,032 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,536 | 31 | #3,573 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,510 | 40 | #2,978 |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,340 | 31 | #3,567 |
| 2015 | 182 | #1,308 | 22 | #4,467 |
| 2014 | 182 | #1,307 | 34 | #3,266 |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,694 | 33 | #3,299 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,598 | 25 | #4,072 |
| 2011 | 162 | #1,412 | 25 | #4,047 |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,381 | 31 | #3,495 |
| 2009 | 179 | #1,340 | 37 | #3,139 |
| 2008 | 202 | #1,244 | 39 | #3,036 |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,330 | 46 | #2,671 |
| 2006 | 235 | #1,081 | 43 | #2,718 |
| 2005 | 195 | #1,183 | 34 | #3,054 |
| 2004 | 213 | #1,080 | 42 | #2,586 |
| 2003 | 234 | #986 | 48 | #2,251 |
| 2002 | 211 | #1,028 | 46 | #2,275 |
| 2001 | 257 | #892 | 53 | #2,016 |
| 2000 | 263 | #845 | 67 | #1,708 |
| 1999 | 286 | #772 | 73 | #1,538 |
| 1998 | 357 | #647 | 74 | #1,494 |
| 1997 | 271 | #773 | 79 | #1,392 |
| 1996 | 298 | #710 | 64 | #1,560 |
| 1995 | 279 | #736 | 54 | #1,672 |
| 1994 | 281 | #740 | 63 | #1,504 |
| 1993 | 305 | #703 | 52 | #1,685 |
| 1992 | 336 | #662 | 56 | #1,591 |
| 1991 | 402 | #577 | 61 | #1,459 |
| 1990 | 343 | #651 | 64 | #1,404 |
| 1989 | 331 | #633 | 50 | #1,602 |
| 1988 | 316 | #628 | 59 | #1,348 |
| 1987 | 324 | #601 | 43 | #1,625 |
| 1986 | 316 | #609 | 43 | #1,551 |
| 1985 | 223 | #765 | 43 | #1,535 |
| 1984 | 218 | #748 | 33 | #1,747 |
| 1983 | 274 | #631 | 49 | #1,339 |
| 1982 | 249 | #706 | 32 | #1,794 |
| 1981 | 197 | #810 | 29 | #1,925 |
| 1980 | 197 | #815 | 29 | #1,934 |
| 1979 | 188 | #830 | 47 | #1,361 |
| 1978 | 194 | #786 | 33 | #1,676 |
| 1977 | 127 | #1,043 | 38 | #1,499 |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,176 | 25 | #1,960 |
| 1975 | 141 | #921 | 16 | #2,589 |
| 1974 | 100 | #1,154 | 18 | #2,318 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,333 | 18 | #2,274 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,756 | 11 | #3,064 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,223 | 9 | #3,520 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,605 | 14 | #2,573 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,474 | 9 | #3,195 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,102 | 8 | #3,240 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,255 | 8 | #3,115 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,317 | 6 | #3,721 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,522 | 5 | #4,189 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,717 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,069 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,410 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,539 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,962 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).