girls:
20.1k births since 1880
#1030 (82nd percentile)
boys:
6.5k births since 1880
#1466 (68th percentile)
overall:
26.6k births since 1880
#1555 (80th percentile)
The name Lacy is the #1,555 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26,562 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 79.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,030 (82.0% percentile) for all time with 20,088 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,466 (68.0% percentile) for all time with 6,474 births since 1880.
Lacy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Lacy has been given predominantly to girls, with 75.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Lacy were girls. Interestingly, until around 1972, the name was more popular for boys (75.9% boys from 1880 to 1971), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (95.2% girls from 1972 to 2023).
For girls, Lacy reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 70.0% percentile (ranked #233) with 543 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 545 births per million (ranked 68.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lacy ranks #893 for girls (5.7% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 6.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lacy reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 21.3% percentile (ranked #436) with 107 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 204 births per million (ranked 11.1% 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 "Lacy".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lacy", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 17 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lacey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lacey..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lacy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lacy is pronounced as LAY-see, which has 2 syllables.
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