Stacy
Stacy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 161 births. Its best rank was 32nd, in 1971, 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1610.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19719,116 births
- Best rank
- #32first in 1971
- Since 1892
- 186,130people given the name
The story in the numbers
163,889 girls have been named Stacy in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 9,116 births — 0.55% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 161 births in 2024, against 9,116 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1975, and the 1970s alone account for 43%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 22,241 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Stacy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 29 | |
| 1900s | 53 | |
| 1910s | 133 | |
| 1920s | 130 | |
| 1930s | 76 | |
| 1940s | 327 | |
| 1950s | 4,840 | |
| 1960s | 35,527 | |
| 1970s | 69,901 | |
| 1980s | 36,991 | |
| 1990s | 8,839 | |
| 2000s | 4,078 | |
| 2010s | 2,152 | |
| 2020s | 813 |
In 1971, its biggest year
Stacy was the 32nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1971 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Stacy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tanyapeak 1974
- Staciepeak 1971
- Shonnapeak 1977
- Tawnyapeak 1972
- Kerripeak 1975
- Staceypeak 1971
- Latanyapeak 1972
- Kristipeak 1971
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.