Laci
Laci was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,043 among girls’ names; 9,623 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,430 Americans named Laci and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laci by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laci mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laci is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laci?
#5,043 among girls’ names, 2025
Laci fell from #1,631 in 2015 to #5,043 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 73.9 to 16.2 per million.
686 babies in 2003, the peak
Laci peaked in 2003, when 686 girls were given it, #438 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,043 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,006 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,745 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,159 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,740 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,567 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,261 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,522 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,970 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,138 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 132 | #1,631 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 138 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,505 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 149 | #1,501 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 154 | #1,461 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,266 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 186 | #1,303 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 281 | #958 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 394 | #741 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 412 | #685 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 576 | #515 | 0.31 |
| 2004 | 588 | #500 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 686 | #438 | 0.38 |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,128 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,911 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,578 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,507 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,627 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 122 | #1,390 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,469 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,347 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 151 | #1,170 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 170 | #1,070 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 224 | #881 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 270 | #764 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 256 | #787 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 279 | #711 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 297 | #655 | 0.17 |
| 1987 | 287 | #657 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 290 | #638 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 312 | #608 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 298 | #600 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 246 | #690 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 250 | #705 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 186 | #842 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 160 | #936 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 112 | #1,181 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,178 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,986 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,573 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,946 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,696 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,211 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,236 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,871 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,213 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laci a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laci has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laci: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laci, and how old are they?
9,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,623 Americans ever recorded as Laci. The median Laci alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 8,274 people named Laci (8,250 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 573 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,640 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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 Laci born?
The states with the most babies named Laci are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,289 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 457 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 397 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Oklahoma | 344 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Ohio | 332 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 316 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 268 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 249 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 246 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 237 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Laci is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laci is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1962 it was given 2.7 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 Laci 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 108,334 babies since 1880, Laci is the fourth most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 543 babies (4.8%), again the fourth 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 Laci
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 Laci and names like it
- Compare Laci and LaceyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaci peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laci since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Laci: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Laci.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laci alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.