Girls' name · since 1950
Tacey
Tacey has 305 recorded births since 1950 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1970 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #15,766 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 305
- born since 1950
- 1970s
- peak decade
Tacey is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 305 have been recorded since 1950.
Tacey has 305 recorded births among girls since 1950, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1950 to 2024.
- #15,766 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 305 born since 1950
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tacey ranks #15,766 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 305 born since 1950, peaking in the 1970s.
- #15,766 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 305
- born since 1950
- 1970s
- peak decade
Tacey's 305 recorded births place it above 78.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tacey's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Tacey splits its recorded history at 1980: 47% of all births land in the more recent half, 53% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1950 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1970 peak of 17 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Tacey popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1950–2024
- Peak year (1970)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 75 years of records
Tacey by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (77 births, 25% of the file).
1970s was Tacey's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 25% of all-time use.
Tacey births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s
1950s
44 births
- 1960s
1960s
41 births
- 1970s
1970s
77 births
- 1980s
1980s
44 births
- 1990s 19
1990s
19 births
- 2000s
2000s
62 births
- 2010s 13
2010s
13 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 77 births (25% of all-time use).
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- Tacey's decade-level peak was the 1970s (77 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tacey: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~74 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1950–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tacey draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.