girls:
797 births since 1884
#4919 (14th percentile)
overall:
797 births since 1884
#6942 (10th percentile)
The name Tacy is the #6,942 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 797 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 10.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,919 (13.9% percentile) for all time with 797 births since 1884.
Tacy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (first recorded for girls in 1884). Birth data for Tacy is available in 73 out of the 133 years between 1884 and 2016. 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.
For girls, Tacy reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #740) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 44 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tacy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tacy is pronounced as TAY-see, which has 2 syllables.
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