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Lachelle vs Lacie

American parents have registered 10,831 Lacies since 1880, against 2,442 Lachelles. Lacie is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lachelle 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

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Lacie for 86 years and Lachelle for 21 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Lachelle Lacie
Total US births 2,44210,831
Most in one year 83380
Babies in 2025 under 575
Estimated living today 2,30010,000
Median age today 4131
Peak year 19901989
Best rank 1,755th girls577th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,387th
First recorded 19541898
Girls / boys 2,442 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Lachelles alive today are over 41; half the Lacies are over 31. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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