Lacy
Lacy was given to 67 girls in 2025, #2,597 among girls’ names; 26,685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,000 Americans named Lacy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 31 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lacy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lacy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lacy is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Lacey.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage, variant of Lacey.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lacy?
#2,597 among girls’ names, 2025
Lacy fell from #1,444 in 2015 to #2,597 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 89.6 to 41.7 per million.
1,015 babies in 1982, the peak
Lacy peaked in 1982, when 1,015 babies were given it (988 girls, #253 among girls’ names). The 67 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,597 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,035 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,839 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,566 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,145 | 7 | #10,338 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,515 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,524 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,875 | 7 | #10,280 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,883 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,750 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 160 | #1,444 | 5 | #13,201 |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,482 | 7 | #10,266 |
| 2013 | 156 | #1,443 | 5 | #13,236 |
| 2012 | 143 | #1,546 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,551 | 5 | #13,494 |
| 2010 | 170 | #1,370 | 11 | #7,368 |
| 2009 | 198 | #1,248 | 12 | #7,059 |
| 2008 | 205 | #1,234 | 10 | #8,044 |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,007 | 9 | #8,625 |
| 2006 | 246 | #1,043 | 10 | #7,765 |
| 2005 | 263 | #943 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 273 | #892 | 7 | #9,516 |
| 2003 | 297 | #826 | 16 | #4,940 |
| 2002 | 186 | #1,123 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,019 | 6 | #10,005 |
| 2000 | 206 | #1,023 | 13 | #5,460 |
| 1999 | 231 | #915 | 9 | #6,861 |
| 1998 | 231 | #911 | 7 | #8,074 |
| 1997 | 277 | #762 | 15 | #4,368 |
| 1996 | 276 | #767 | 13 | #4,770 |
| 1995 | 330 | #652 | 17 | #3,775 |
| 1994 | 432 | #557 | 17 | #3,834 |
| 1993 | 534 | #476 | 23 | #2,982 |
| 1992 | 594 | #424 | 23 | #2,954 |
| 1991 | 695 | #371 | 25 | #2,716 |
| 1990 | 753 | #355 | 31 | #2,286 |
| 1989 | 736 | #349 | 36 | #2,007 |
| 1988 | 749 | #329 | 28 | #2,221 |
| 1987 | 838 | #290 | 28 | #2,151 |
| 1986 | 853 | #291 | 24 | #2,330 |
| 1985 | 934 | #269 | 31 | #1,894 |
| 1984 | 940 | #260 | 28 | #1,956 |
| 1983 | 972 | #243 | 31 | #1,802 |
| 1982 | 988 | #253 | 27 | #2,032 |
| 1981 | 833 | #291 | 27 | #2,020 |
| 1980 | 562 | #406 | 34 | #1,713 |
| 1979 | 427 | #475 | 42 | #1,452 |
| 1978 | 453 | #441 | 29 | #1,814 |
| 1977 | 159 | #895 | 35 | #1,592 |
| 1976 | 152 | #877 | 43 | #1,367 |
| 1975 | 210 | #709 | 32 | #1,608 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,494 | 46 | #1,237 |
| 1973 | 66 | #1,456 | 39 | #1,339 |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,421 | 47 | #1,204 |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,047 | 40 | #1,342 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,413 | 46 | #1,231 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,583 | 49 | #1,118 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,793 | 68 | #876 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,243 | 49 | #1,053 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,166 | 47 | #1,082 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,935 | 61 | #946 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,443 | 55 | #1,023 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,112 | 60 | #975 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,640 | 49 | #1,098 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,502 | 59 | #1,023 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,861 | 61 | #976 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,712 | 76 | #882 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,619 | 64 | #953 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,384 | 76 | #867 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,988 | 79 | #843 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,676 | 71 | #881 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,644 | 67 | #903 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,396 | 77 | #821 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,974 | 96 | #718 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,528 | 75 | #817 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,837 | 91 | #717 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,088 | 77 | #782 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,552 | 88 | #714 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,831 | 99 | #696 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,129 | 89 | #687 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,109 | 67 | #750 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,637 | 89 | #660 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,113 | 96 | #652 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,831 | 96 | #657 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,140 | 92 | #637 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,647 | 81 | #674 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,079 | 86 | #641 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,909 | 66 | #753 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,754 | 100 | #578 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,093 | 87 | #627 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,960 | 100 | #581 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,652 | 93 | #619 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,687 | 73 | #708 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,653 | 104 | #582 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,985 | 80 | #670 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,609 | 102 | #608 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,051 | 98 | #612 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,238 | 97 | #623 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,980 | 116 | #573 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,637 | 106 | #610 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,393 | 121 | #564 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,956 | 125 | #571 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,441 | 100 | #643 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,704 | 118 | #595 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,527 | 116 | #591 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,489 | 107 | #611 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,465 | 91 | #643 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,472 | 110 | #581 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,419 | 110 | #563 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,346 | 111 | #543 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,499 | 89 | #613 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,365 | 79 | #566 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,034 | 60 | #562 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,131 | 65 | #493 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,333 | 31 | #541 |
| 1910 | 26 | #852 | 33 | #488 |
| 1909 | 19 | #949 | 23 | #551 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,114 | 30 | #444 |
| 1907 | 16 | #966 | 30 | #422 |
| 1906 | 15 | #986 | 26 | #436 |
| 1905 | 15 | #989 | 18 | #559 |
| 1904 | 14 | #980 | 22 | #461 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,262 | 23 | #422 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,050 | 22 | #448 |
| 1901 | 21 | #711 | 16 | #498 |
| 1900 | 16 | #955 | 33 | #392 |
| 1899 | 12 | #955 | 15 | #514 |
| 1898 | 16 | #864 | 8 | #849 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,322 | 19 | #447 |
| 1896 | 13 | #928 | 17 | #512 |
| 1895 | 17 | #781 | 12 | #627 |
| 1894 | 14 | #827 | 23 | #392 |
| 1893 | 15 | #778 | 10 | #681 |
| 1892 | 12 | #879 | 18 | #471 |
| 1891 | 10 | #923 | 14 | #488 |
| 1890 | 11 | #854 | 17 | #449 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,384 | 10 | #651 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,213 | 13 | #572 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,090 | 8 | #714 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,038 | 10 | #625 |
| 1885 | 7 | #878 | 12 | #564 |
| 1884 | under 5 | 7 | #819 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 7 | #766 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 11 | #593 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 10 | #576 | |
| 1880 | 6 | #794 | 9 | #662 |
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 Lacy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 26,685 Americans recorded as Lacy, 76% are girls and 24% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Lacy every year since 1969. In 2025 it went to 67 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 Lacy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lacy, and how old are they?
21,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 26,685 Americans ever recorded as Lacy. The median Lacy alive today is 39 years old; half are between 31 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 19,544 people named Lacy (17,379 women and girls, 2,165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 397 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,960 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,300 |
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 Lacy born?
The states with the most babies named Lacy are Texas, North Carolina and California, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 2,838 | #2,140 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 2,011 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| California | 1,329 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 918 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Oklahoma | 800 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 731 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 708 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 647 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 629 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 604 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Lacy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lacy is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 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 Lacy 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 105,792 babies since 1880, Lacy is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 543 babies (12%), the third 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.
More about Lacy and names like it
- Compare Lacy and LaceyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLacy peaked in 1982.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lacy since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Lacy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Lacy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lacy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.