Stacey — #2744 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Stacey

The Social Security Administration has registered 147,693 babies named Stacey between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Stacey currently holds the #2744 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 7,482 babies received it in a single year. Stacey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 13,974 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Stacey performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 59,210 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Stacey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14,613 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Stacey in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Stacey 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 147,693 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.