Tacey
Tacey was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 305 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tacey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tacey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tacey is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “to be silent” (tacere).
From Latin tacere (“to be silent”).
/ˈteɪ.si/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tacey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,409, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1970, the peak
Tacey peaked in 1970, when 17 girls were given it, #3,697 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,409 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,405 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,539 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,882 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,388 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,319 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,857 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,624 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,275 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,064 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #17,637 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,970 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,298 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,467 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,444 | 5.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,023 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,064 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,948 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,095 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,246 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,076 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,638 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,446 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,084 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,692 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,195 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,006 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,423 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,445 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,697 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,401 | 5.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,221 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,788 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,847 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,311 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,020 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,869 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,678 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,752 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,094 | 3.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,012 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tacey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tacey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tacey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tacey, and how old are they?
An estimated 283 Americans named Tacey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 25 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 333 people named Tacey (323 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,260 babies since 1880, Tacey is the third most given (13% of them).
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 Tacey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Joli | 1,155 |
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 Tacey and names like it
- Compare Tacey and TacyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTacey peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Tacey.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tacey alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.