girls:
53 births since 2006
#5663 (1st percentile)
boys:
435 births since 1886
#4151 (9th percentile)
overall:
488 births since 1886
#7251 (6th percentile)
The name Acey is the #7,251 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 488 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,151 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 435 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,663 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 2006.
Acey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Acey is available in 69 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (66 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Acey has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 64.3% of babies named Acey were boys.
For boys, Acey reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #547) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Acey ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 11.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Acey reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #951) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Acey ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 42.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Acey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Acey is pronounced as AY-see, which has 2 syllables.
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