Pacey
Pacey is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,668 among girls’ names and #4,663 among boys’, #8,031 among all names counting both); 1,032 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Pacey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pacey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pacey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pacey is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pacey?
#4,663 among boys’ names, 2025
Pacey rose from #5,670 in 2015 to #4,663 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 12.9 per million.
67 babies in 2001, the peak
Pacey peaked in 2001, when 67 babies were given it (52 boys, #2,038 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,668 | 22 | #4,663 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,411 | 22 | #4,664 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,847 | 20 | #5,009 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,235 | 26 | #4,156 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,395 | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,923 | 23 | #4,380 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,286 | 19 | #5,102 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,486 | 14 | #6,243 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,463 | 13 | #6,571 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,137 | 20 | #4,897 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,893 | 16 | #5,670 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,150 | 16 | #5,650 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,057 | 9 | #8,586 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,521 | 25 | #4,095 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,521 | 27 | #3,863 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,654 | 32 | #3,424 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,836 | 34 | #3,314 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,931 | 25 | #4,109 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,885 | 25 | #4,089 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,221 | 31 | #3,432 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,728 | 43 | #2,594 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,742 | 40 | #2,673 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,537 | 33 | #2,973 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,430 | 33 | #2,867 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,225 | 52 | #2,038 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,790 | 34 | #2,717 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,193 | 24 | #3,340 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,047 | 11 | #5,723 |
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 Pacey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,032 Americans recorded as Pacey, 30% are girls and 70% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Pacey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pacey, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,032 Americans ever recorded as Pacey. The median Pacey alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 804 people named Pacey (255 women and girls, 549 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 617 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 403 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,337 babies since 1880, Pacey is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 72 babies (42%), the second 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 Pacey
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 Pacey and names like it
- Compare Pacey and PaceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPacey peaked in 2001.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pacey since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Pacey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pacey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.