Kacey
Kacey is given to both girls and boys: 211 girls and 182 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,118 among girls’ names and #1,155 among boys’, #1,396 among all names counting both); 15,265 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Kacey every year since 2024.
An estimated 14,900 Americans named Kacey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 13 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kacey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kacey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kacey is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Casey.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kacey?
#1,118 among girls’ names, 2025
Kacey rose from #1,308 in 2015 to #1,118 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.13 per 1,000.
463 babies in 1991, the peak
Kacey peaked in 1991, when 463 babies were given it (402 girls, #577 among girls’ names). The 393 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| 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 | #2,031 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,536 | 31 | #3,569 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,510 | 40 | #2,977 |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,340 | 31 | #3,566 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 182 | #1,308 | 22 | #4,465 |
| 2014 | 182 | #1,307 | 34 | #3,264 |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,694 | 33 | #3,297 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,598 | 25 | #4,069 |
| 2011 | 162 | #1,412 | 25 | #4,045 |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,381 | 31 | #3,494 |
| 2009 | 179 | #1,340 | 37 | #3,138 |
| 2008 | 202 | #1,244 | 39 | #3,035 |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,330 | 46 | #2,671 |
| 2006 | 235 | #1,081 | 43 | #2,717 |
| 2005 | 195 | #1,183 | 34 | #3,050 |
| 2004 | 213 | #1,080 | 42 | #2,582 |
| 2003 | 234 | #985 | 48 | #2,247 |
| 2002 | 211 | #1,027 | 46 | #2,271 |
| 2001 | 257 | #892 | 53 | #2,012 |
| 2000 | 263 | #844 | 67 | #1,704 |
| 1999 | 286 | #771 | 73 | #1,535 |
| 1998 | 357 | #647 | 74 | #1,491 |
| 1997 | 271 | #773 | 79 | #1,389 |
| 1996 | 298 | #710 | 64 | #1,557 |
| 1995 | 279 | #735 | 54 | #1,667 |
| 1994 | 281 | #739 | 63 | #1,499 |
| 1993 | 305 | #703 | 52 | #1,680 |
| 1992 | 336 | #662 | 56 | #1,586 |
| 1991 | 402 | #577 | 61 | #1,453 |
| 1990 | 343 | #650 | 64 | #1,399 |
| 1989 | 331 | #632 | 50 | #1,597 |
| 1988 | 316 | #628 | 59 | #1,344 |
| 1987 | 324 | #601 | 43 | #1,623 |
| 1986 | 316 | #609 | 43 | #1,550 |
| 1985 | 223 | #765 | 43 | #1,534 |
| 1984 | 218 | #748 | 33 | #1,746 |
| 1983 | 274 | #631 | 49 | #1,338 |
| 1982 | 249 | #706 | 32 | #1,793 |
| 1981 | 197 | #810 | 29 | #1,924 |
| 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 | #1,959 |
| 1975 | 141 | #921 | 16 | #2,587 |
| 1974 | 100 | #1,154 | 18 | #2,316 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,333 | 18 | #2,272 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,756 | 11 | #3,062 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,223 | 9 | #3,518 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,605 | 14 | #2,572 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,474 | 9 | #3,194 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,101 | 8 | #3,239 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,254 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,316 | 6 | #3,720 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,521 | 5 | #4,188 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,716 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,068 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,409 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,451 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,333 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,537 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,960 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kacey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,265 Americans recorded as Kacey, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kacey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kacey, and how old are they?
14,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 15,265 Americans ever recorded as Kacey. The median Kacey alive today is 28 years old; half are between 13 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 11,711 people named Kacey (9,826 women and girls, 1,885 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,687 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,510 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,780 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kacey born?
The states with the most babies named Kacey are Texas, California and Georgia, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 54 | #968 | 0.9× |
| California | 35 | #1,167 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 27 | #771 | 1.1× |
| New York | 22 | #1,272 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 21 | #1,487 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 12 | #1,110 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 11 | #906 | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 11 | #580 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 10 | #757 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #945 | 0.7× |
Where Kacey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kacey is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1952 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kacey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 172,295 babies since 1880, Kacey is the second most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 393 of their 905 babies (43%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kacey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kacey and names like it
- Compare Kacey and KayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKacey peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kacey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kacey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kacey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kacey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.