Lacey
About 55,233 American babies have been named Lacey since 1886, most of them around 1984. In 2025 it ranked 738th. About 53,000 Laceys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lacey boys named Lacey
Girls and boys called Lacey
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Lacey crossed from boys to girls in 1957, and has stayed there for 69 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 81 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
- 55,233
- Estimated living today
- 53,000
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 116th
- Rank in 2025
- 738th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 53,774 / 1,459
How old the living Laceys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 55,233 babies given the name since 1886, about 53,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 9,700 of them are children and 400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Laceys
- Lacey Chabert (born 1982)American actress
- Lacey Duvalle (born 1982)American pornographic actress
- Lacey Sturm (born 1981)American singer
- Lacey Turner (born 1988)British actress
- Lacey Hearn (1881–1969)American Olympic runner
- Lacey Nymeyer (born 1985)American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Lacey Von Erich (born 1986)American professional wrestler
People named Lacey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lacey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lacey is most concentrated in Utah (2.8×), Idaho (2.7×), Wyoming (2.7×), Montana (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular girls’ names the year Lacey peaked:
Lacey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Lacey | 13,463 | 36th |
| Scotland girls | Lacey | 1,277 | 29th |
| Ireland girls | Lacey | 425 | 146th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lacey | 294 | 68th |
| Belgium girls | Lacey | 5 | 1,444th |
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.
Lacey: rank by region
In 2013, Lacey was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lacey | 847 | 5 |
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
Lacey 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.