Kacey
Kacey is a girl's name that peaked in 1991, when it was the 577th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,117th. About 15,000 Kaceys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kacey boys named Kacey
Girls and boys called Kacey
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 11,961 girls and 3,304 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 211 to 182.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 58 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,265
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 577th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,117th
- First recorded
- 1952
- Girls / boys
- 11,961 / 3,304
How old the living Kaceys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,265 babies given the name since 1952, about 15,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 4,800 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Variant of Casey.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kaceys
- Kacey Musgraves (born 1988)American singer
- Kacey Rohl (born 1991)Canadian film and television actress
- Kacey Mottet-Klein (born 1998)Swiss actor
- Kacey Barnfield (born 1988)British actress
People named Kacey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kacey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kacey is most concentrated in Colorado (2.7×), Florida (1.8×), Georgia (1.7×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Kacey peaked:
Kacey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kacey | 4,117 | 130th |
| Scotland girls | Kacey | 521 | 117th |
| Ireland girls | Kacey | 355 | 138th |
| England and Wales boys | Kacey | 292 | 1,053rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kacey | 173 | 114th |
| France girls | Kacey | 50 | 3,401st |
| Switzerland girls | Kacey | 11 | 1,458th |
| Belgium girls | Kacey | 6 | 1,015th |
| Ireland boys | Kacey | 3 | 711th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kacey: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Kacey | 7 | 0.001% | 1,229th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Kacey | 3 | 0.001% | 824th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Kacey | 1 | 0.002% | 191st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Kacey: rank by region
In 1997, Kacey was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kacey | 641 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Kacey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.