girls:
53k births since 1888
#559 (90th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1886
#3186 (30th percentile)
overall:
54.5k births since 1886
#1020 (87th percentile)
The name Lacey is the #1,020 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54,476 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 86.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #559 (90.2% percentile) for all time with 53,018 births since 1888. For boys, it ranks #3,186 (30.5% percentile) for all time with 1,458 births since 1886.
Lacey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1888 for girls). Birth data for Lacey is available in 120 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (103 years for boys and 98 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 Lacey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.3% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1957, the name was more popular for boys (74.1% boys from 1886 to 1956), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.6% girls from 1957 to 2023).
For girls, Lacey reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 85.6% percentile (ranked #118) with 1,228 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 1,332 births per million (ranked 84.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lacey ranks #604 for girls (36.3% percentile) with 211 births per million, which is 15.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lacey reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #564) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 50 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lacey".
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