Lacey
Lacey was given to 370 girls in 2025, #738 among girls’ names; 55,233 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 53,100 Americans named Lacey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lacey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lacey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lacey is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lacey?
#738 among girls’ names, 2025
Lacey fell from #478 in 2015 to #738 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.38 to 0.23 per 1,000.
2,420 babies in 1984, the peak
Lacey peaked in 1984, when 2,420 babies were given it (2,399 girls, #116 among girls’ names). The 370 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 370 | #738 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 378 | #746 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 370 | #763 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 317 | #879 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 346 | #809 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 394 | #712 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 446 | #656 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 457 | #651 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 502 | #601 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 638 | #487 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 676 | #478 | 0.38 |
| 2014 | 655 | #480 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 658 | #466 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 623 | #494 | 0.35 |
| 2011 | 708 | #440 | 0.40 |
| 2010 | 705 | #437 | 0.40 |
| 2009 | 740 | #432 | 0.40 |
| 2008 | 795 | #407 | 0.42 |
| 2007 | 839 | #390 | 0.44 |
| 2006 | 712 | #448 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 696 | #438 | 0.38 |
| 2004 | 714 | #424 | 0.39 |
| 2003 | 813 | #371 | 0.44 |
| 2002 | 602 | #470 | 0.34 |
| 2001 | 693 | #415 | 0.38 |
| 2000 | 793 | #371 | 0.44 |
| 1999 | 867 | #346 | 0.49 |
| 1998 | 941 | #322 | 0.53 |
| 1997 | 989 | #290 | 0.57 |
| 1996 | 1,053 | #277 | 0.60 |
| 1995 | 1,210 | #236 | 0.69 |
| 1994 | 1,398 | #209 | 0.78 |
| 1993 | 1,522 | #194 | 0.84 |
| 1992 | 1,754 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 2,071 | #145 | 1.1 |
| 1990 | 2,047 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 2,076 | #143 | 1.1 |
| 1988 | 2,243 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1987 | 2,399 | #117 | 1.4 |
| 1986 | 2,266 | #121 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 2,359 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 1984 | 2,399 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1983 | 2,383 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 2,382 | #125 | 1.4 |
| 1981 | 1,369 | #194 | 0.82 |
| 1980 | 897 | #277 | 0.54 |
| 1979 | 790 | #303 | 0.49 |
| 1978 | 787 | #293 | 0.51 |
| 1977 | 304 | #573 | 0.20 |
| 1976 | 242 | #639 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 294 | #565 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,292 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 94 | #1,162 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 70 | #1,411 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 70 | #1,470 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,252 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,459 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,549 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,148 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,327 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,089 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,505 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,038 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 55 | #1,516 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,810 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,588 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,896 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,673 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,526 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,087 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,981 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,045 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,934 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,106 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,022 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,979 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,863 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,221 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,237 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,237 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,521 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,692 | 0.02 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lacey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 55,233 Americans recorded as Lacey, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 370 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lacey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lacey, and how old are they?
53,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 55,233 Americans ever recorded as Lacey. The median Lacey alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 46,058 people named Lacey (45,403 women and girls, 655 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 51,515 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 74 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 487 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,950 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 30,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,180 |
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 Lacey born?
The states with the most babies named Lacey are California, Texas and Ohio, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 4,345 | #1,131 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 4,246 | #1,140 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 2,139 | #632 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 2,114 | #750 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,075 | #391 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 1,842 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 1,787 | #956 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 1,699 | #691 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 1,669 | #864 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 1,656 | #621 | 0.8× |
Where Lacey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lacey is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Lacey 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 107,319 babies since 1880, Lacey is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 370 of their 552 babies (67%), again the most given.
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 Lacey
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 Lacey and names like it
- Compare Lacey and LacyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLacey peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lacey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Lacey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Lacey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lacey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.