Lacey

What Lacey means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lacey yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 2,399 babies; 370 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lacey?

US: Falling: down from #478 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #82 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1983, when 2,383 girls got the name (#128 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 4,344 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,052 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,193 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ID (0.84 per 1,000 girls), WI (0.69 per 1,000 girls), PA (0.6 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Lacey is #738 in the US and #478 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lacey were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lucy6,176 US · 346 E&W
• Lacy67 US · 4 E&W
• Laci26 US
• Laycee9 US
• Lucee8 US
• Lacee5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lacey

Girls

• Tiffany#878Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1988, with 18,364 babies; 304 in 2025
• Kelsey#814Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #343 in 2015, #814 in 2025
• Kimberly#302Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #108 in 2015, #302 in 2025
• Kelly#851Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 18,234 babies; 319 in 2025
• Ashley#164“ash tree + wood, clearing”^*
• Shelby#649Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1991, with 10,220 babies; 444 in 2025

For a brother

• Travis#434“to cross over”^*
• Keith#800“wood”^*
• Curtis#984“polite, courteous”^*
• Bradley#403“broad + woodland”^*
• Corey#778possibly “troop, host, company”^*
• Douglas#807“black + stream”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lacey’s. Rank is US 2025.