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Lacee vs Lacie

American parents have registered 10,831 Lacies since 1880, against 2,557 Lacees. Lacie is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lacee against Lacie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lacee Lacie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lacie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1969, when Lacee had 6 and Lacie had 15.

Side by side

  Lacee Lacie
Total US births 2,55710,831
Most in one year 118380
Babies in 2025 575
Estimated living today 2,50010,000
Median age today 3231
Peak year 19911989
Best rank 1,371st girls577th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd2,387th
First recorded 19691898
Girls / boys 2,557 / 010,789 / 42

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Lacee Lacie
England and Wales 832,588

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lacee and Lacie.