Girls' name · since 1979
Dacy
71 babies named Dacy in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #30,923 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 71
- born since 1979
- 2000s
- peak decade
Dacy is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 71 have been recorded since 1979.
Dacy has 71 recorded births among girls since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 2008.
- #30,923 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 71 born since 1979
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dacy ranks #30,923 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 71 born since 1979, peaking in the 2000s.
- #30,923 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 71
- born since 1979
- 2000s
- peak decade
Dacy's 71 recorded births place it above 57.08% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Dacy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Dacy's full recorded timeline at 1993, 61% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 39% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1980, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2004 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Dacy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–2008
- Peak year (2004)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 30 years of records
Dacy by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (29 births, 41% of the file).
2000s was Dacy's strongest decade.
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Dacy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
15 births
- 1990s
1990s
21 births
- 2000s
2000s
29 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 29 births (41% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Dacy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~29 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, 1979–2008 (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 Dacy 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.