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Stacey vs Stanford

American parents have registered 161,732 Staceys since 1880, against 7,727 Stanfords. Stacey is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Stacey against Stanford, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Stacey Stanford

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 131 years in which either name was published, Stacey for 76 years and Stanford for 55 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Stacey Stanford
Total US births 161,7327,727
Most in one year 8,006135
Babies in 2025 5912
Estimated living today 150,0003,900
Median age today 5159
Peak year 19711954
Best rank 41st girls633rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,067th6,803rd
First recorded 19131880
Girls / boys 147,750 / 13,9820 / 7,727

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 Stanfords alive today are over 59; half the Staceys are over 51. That is 8 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: Stacey and Stanford.