Unisex name · since 1974
Cacey
Cacey has 207 recorded births since 1974 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1995 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,460 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 207
- born since 1974
- 1990s
- peak decade
207 girls have been named Cacey since 1974, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Cacey has 207 recorded births among girls since 1974, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1974 to 2018.
- #19,460 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 207 born since 1974
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cacey ranks #19,460 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 207 born since 1974, peaking in the 1990s.
- #19,460 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 207
- born since 1974
- 1990s
- peak decade
Cacey's 207 recorded births place it above 73.04% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cacey's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Cacey splits its recorded history at 1993: 47% of all births land in the more recent half, 53% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1999 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1995 peak of 13 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Cacey popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1974–2018
- Peak year (1995)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 45 years of records
Cacey popularity over time - boys
23 total births recorded since 1985 (Cacey as boys' name)
Cacey by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (83 births, 40% of the file).
1990s was Cacey's strongest decade.
83 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 40% of all-time use.
Cacey births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 13
1970s
13 births
- 1980s
1980s
70 births
- 1990s
1990s
83 births
- 2000s 29
2000s
29 births
- 2010s 12
2010s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 83 births (40% of all-time use).
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- Cacey's decade-level peak was the 1990s (83 total births); usage has since declined to 12 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cacey: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1995)
Similar record span (~44 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1974–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cacey draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.