Tacy — girls' name
797 babies named Tacy in U.S. Social Security records since 1884, with the highest year being 1969. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Tacy was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Tacy in 1969 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tacy
The Social Security Administration has registered 797 babies named Tacy between 1884 and 2016, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tacy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tacy performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 164 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Tacy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tacy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tacy 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 797 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.
Tacy at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tacy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1884
- Peak year (1969)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 133 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
797 total births across 133 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1969 with 28 births in a single year.
Tacy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 164 births that decade — 21% of Tacy's all-time total
Tacy decade highlights
- Peak decade 164 births
- Runner-up 149 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Tacy's strongest decade
164 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Tacy by state
Where Tacy concentrates geographically — total births since 1884
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 1.3% |
10 of 797 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1884–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.