Lacy
Lacy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 54 births. Its best rank was 243rd, in 1983.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 540.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1982988 births
- Best rank
- #243in 1983
- Since 1880
- 26,616people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,142 girls have been named Lacy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 988 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 42%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Lacy is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are boys (6,474), most of them born around 1924.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lacy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 36 | |
| 1890s | 127 | |
| 1900s | 151 | |
| 1910s | 251 | |
| 1920s | 238 | |
| 1930s | 169 | |
| 1940s | 163 | |
| 1950s | 174 | |
| 1960s | 345 | |
| 1970s | 1,717 | |
| 1980s | 8,405 | |
| 1990s | 4,353 | |
| 2000s | 2,348 | |
| 2010s | 1,326 | |
| 2020s | 339 |
In 1982, its biggest year
Lacy was the 253rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Lacy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lindsypeak 1982
- Lindsaypeak 1983
- Lyndsaypeak 1982
- Cassipeak 1982
- Tarahpeak 1985
- Linseypeak 1985
- Shandipeak 1986
- Tarenpeak 1982
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.