Lacy — #3009 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lacy

The Social Security Administration has registered 20,142 babies named Lacy between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lacy currently holds the #3009 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 988 babies received it in a single year. Lacy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,474 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lacy performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 8,405 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lacy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,571 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Lacy in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lacy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 20,142 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.