Meaning not yet researched.
Lacey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 370 in 2025. Its best rank was #116 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #116 in 1984; #738 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lacey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#738 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #116.
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Lacey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 370 girls in 2025. Peak: #116 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 2,399 (1987).
In 2025, 370 US girls were named Lacey, making it the 738th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8 places from #746 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 378 girls named Lacey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #116, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,399, in 1987. For comparison, it was #478 in 2015 and #4,528 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lacey in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 55,233 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 20,976 babies named Lacey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,218 US girls were named Lacey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 638. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,344 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lacey ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #379 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laci (9,623 babies since 1880), Lacy (26,685 babies since 1880), Lacie (10,831 babies since 1880) and Lacee (2,557 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laycee, Lacye and Lacia 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: Laycee (746), Lacye (119), Lacia (50), Lasey (39), Laicee (33), Laicey (18), Lacei (10).
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 Lacey 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 14 | #379 | #341 |
| Idaho | 6 | #383 | #263 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #391 | #283 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #430 | #484 |
| Utah | 8 | #515 | #286 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #575 | #352 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #583 | #421 |
| Virginia | 13 | #592 | #334 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #594 | #386 |
| Alabama | 8 | #608 | #660 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #618 | #547 |
| Michigan | 13 | #621 | #377 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #624 | #342 |
| Ohio | 16 | #632 | #265 |
| Missouri | 8 | #691 | #387 |
| Illinois | 13 | #728 | #745 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #734 | #430 |
| Florida | 22 | #750 | #497 |
| New York | 21 | #773 | #1,042 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #856 | #551 |
| Washington | 7 | #864 | #445 |
| Georgia | 10 | #956 | #645 |
| Colorado | 5 | #989 | #465 |
| Indiana | 6 | #990 | #461 |
| California | 23 | #1,131 | #846 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,140 | #569 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,153 | #479 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 370 | #738 | — | — |
| 2024 | 378 | #746 | — | — |
| 2023 | 370 | #763 | — | — |
| 2022 | 317 | #879 | — | — |
| 2021 | 346 | #809 | 5 | #13,258 |
| 2020 | 394 | #712 | — | — |
| 2019 | 446 | #656 | 5 | #13,295 |
| 2018 | 457 | #651 | — | — |
| 2017 | 502 | #601 | — | — |
| 2016 | 638 | #487 | — | — |
| 2015 | 676 | #478 | — | — |
| 2014 | 655 | #480 | — | — |
| 2013 | 658 | #466 | 6 | #11,566 |
| 2012 | 623 | #494 | — | — |
| 2011 | 708 | #440 | — | — |
| 2010 | 705 | #437 | — | — |
| 2009 | 740 | #432 | 7 | #10,531 |
| 2008 | 795 | #407 | — | — |
| 2007 | 839 | #390 | 5 | #13,547 |
| 2006 | 712 | #448 | — | — |
| 2005 | 696 | #438 | — | — |
| 2004 | 714 | #424 | 10 | #7,316 |
| 2003 | 813 | #371 | 8 | #8,297 |
| 2002 | 602 | #470 | 8 | #8,126 |
| 2001 | 693 | #415 | 5 | #11,606 |
| 2000 | 793 | #371 | — | — |
| 1999 | 867 | #346 | 8 | #7,555 |
| 1998 | 941 | #322 | 5 | #10,592 |
| 1997 | 989 | #290 | 7 | #7,761 |
| 1996 | 1,053 | #277 | 14 | #4,521 |
| 1995 | 1,210 | #236 | 7 | #7,453 |
| 1994 | 1,398 | #209 | 12 | #4,985 |
| 1993 | 1,522 | #194 | 8 | #6,583 |
| 1992 | 1,754 | #173 | 20 | #3,290 |
| 1991 | 2,071 | #145 | 17 | #3,557 |
| 1990 | 2,047 | #148 | 15 | #3,888 |
| 1989 | 2,076 | #143 | 19 | #3,162 |
| 1988 | 2,243 | #129 | 20 | #2,813 |
| 1987 | 2,399 | #117 | 20 | #2,683 |
| 1986 | 2,266 | #121 | 14 | #3,361 |
| 1985 | 2,359 | #124 | 20 | #2,559 |
| 1984 | 2,399 | #116 | 21 | #2,404 |
| 1983 | 2,383 | #128 | 24 | #2,178 |
| 1982 | 2,382 | #125 | 23 | #2,245 |
| 1981 | 1,369 | #194 | 24 | #2,169 |
| 1980 | 897 | #277 | 18 | #2,678 |
| 1979 | 790 | #303 | 11 | #3,711 |
| 1978 | 787 | #293 | 17 | #2,618 |
| 1977 | 304 | #573 | 11 | #3,495 |
| 1976 | 242 | #639 | 19 | #2,381 |
| 1975 | 294 | #565 | 17 | #2,499 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,292 | 14 | #2,741 |
| 1973 | 94 | #1,162 | 11 | #3,137 |
| 1972 | 70 | #1,411 | 24 | #1,853 |
| 1971 | 70 | #1,470 | 12 | #2,906 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,252 | 20 | #2,033 |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,459 | 15 | #2,263 |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,549 | 17 | #1,998 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,148 | 23 | #1,628 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,328 | 12 | #2,399 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,089 | 10 | #2,703 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,506 | 13 | #2,363 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,039 | 16 | #2,082 |
| 1962 | 55 | #1,517 | 17 | #2,002 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,273 | 17 | #2,040 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,860 | 16 | #2,080 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,817 | 13 | #2,360 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,811 | 16 | #2,069 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,384 | 11 | #2,568 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,589 | 19 | #1,863 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,897 | 16 | #2,010 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,557 | 17 | #1,930 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,750 | 20 | #1,746 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,674 | 27 | #1,477 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,147 | 10 | #2,574 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,528 | 22 | #1,592 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,088 | 27 | #1,421 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,056 | 18 | #1,787 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,982 | 13 | #2,212 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,714 | 9 | #2,622 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,843 | 11 | #2,195 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,046 | 10 | #2,393 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,445 | 13 | #2,122 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,936 | 12 | #2,211 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,736 | 22 | #1,470 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,108 | 15 | #1,853 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,024 | 15 | #1,834 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,136 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,589 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,544 | 17 | #1,690 |
| 1935 | — | — | 23 | #1,439 |
| 1934 | — | — | 17 | #1,757 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,981 | 21 | #1,521 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,582 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,068 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,908 | 11 | #2,532 |
| 1929 | — | — | 19 | #1,762 |
| 1928 | — | — | 17 | #1,936 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #1,992 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,255 | 16 | #2,033 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,864 | 15 | #2,136 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,223 | 17 | #2,007 |
| 1923 | — | — | 20 | #1,790 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,239 | 16 | #2,100 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,239 | 23 | #1,616 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,682 |
| 1919 | — | — | 20 | #1,731 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #2,998 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,523 | 15 | #2,046 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,738 | 14 | #2,099 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,282 | 13 | #2,124 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,197 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,883 |
| 1912 | — | — | 15 | #1,248 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,240 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,151 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,231 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,135 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,244 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #909 |
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).