Kacey
#1,117 for girls in 2025, 211 births · #1,154 for boys in 2025, 182 births
Given to girls 78.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 402 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,961since 1952
Kacey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,117 | 211 | #1,154 | 182 |
| 2024 | #1,095 | 225 | #1,042 | 213 |
| 2023 | #1,229 | 191 | #1,040 | 210 |
| 2022 | #1,190 | 202 | #1,078 | 202 |
| 2021 | #1,169 | 209 | #996 | 220 |
| 2020 | #1,231 | 185 | #1,177 | 163 |
| 2019 | #1,326 | 172 | #2,020 | 72 |
| 2018 | #1,532 | 142 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #1,505 | 147 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #1,338 | 177 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #1,307 | 182 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #1,306 | 182 | #3,234 | 34 |
| 2013 | #1,689 | 124 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #1,591 | 136 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #1,409 | 162 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #1,379 | 168 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | #1,339 | 179 | #3,105 | 37 |
| 2008 | #1,242 | 202 | #3,005 | 39 |
| 2007 | #1,326 | 183 | #2,643 | 46 |
| 2006 | #1,080 | 235 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #1,181 | 195 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #1,078 | 213 | #2,569 | 42 |
| 2003 | #984 | 234 | #2,238 | 48 |
| 2002 | #1,027 | 211 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #891 | 257 | #2,007 | 53 |
| 2000 | #843 | 263 | #1,699 | 67 |
| 1999 | #772 | 286 | #1,531 | 73 |
| 1998 | #646 | 357 | #1,488 | 74 |
| 1997 | #773 | 271 | #1,386 | 79 |
| 1996 | #710 | 298 | #1,552 | 64 |
| 1995 | #734 | 279 | #1,666 | 54 |
| 1994 | #738 | 281 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #702 | 305 | #1,680 | 52 |
| 1992 | #662 | 336 | #1,572 | 56 |
| 1991 | #577 | 402 | #1,452 | 61 |
| 1990 | #650 | 343 | #1,395 | 64 |
| 1989 | #633 | 331 | #1,590 | 50 |
| 1988 | #628 | 316 | #1,341 | 59 |
| 1987 | #601 | 324 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | #608 | 316 | #1,535 | 43 |
| 1985 | #765 | 223 | #1,524 | 43 |
| 1984 | #747 | 218 | #1,723 | 33 |
| 1983 | #630 | 274 | #1,327 | 49 |
| 1982 | #706 | 249 | #1,774 | 32 |
| 1981 | #809 | 197 | #1,899 | 29 |
| 1980 | #814 | 197 | #1,910 | 29 |
| 1979 | #829 | 188 | #1,352 | 47 |
| 1978 | #784 | 194 | #1,652 | 33 |
| 1977 | #1,042 | 127 | #1,490 | 38 |
| 1976 | #1,172 | 97 | #1,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #917 | 141 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #1,151 | 100 | #2,277 | 18 |
| 1973 | #1,329 | 76 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #1,749 | 50 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #2,212 | 36 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #2,577 | 28 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1969 | #2,454 | 28 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #3,057 | 18 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
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| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
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| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kacey! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kacey is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#385 · 1 in 2,030
- Arkansas#398 · 1 in 2,281
- Arizona#399 · 1 in 2,081
- Kentucky#400 · 1 in 2,856
- Oklahoma#422 · 1 in 2,313
Best ever in a state: #185 in Idaho, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #385 | 6 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Arkansas | #398 | 5 | 1 in 2,281 |
| Arizona | #399 | 13 | 1 in 2,081 |
| Kentucky | #400 | 7 | 1 in 2,856 |
| Oklahoma | #422 | 7 | 1 in 2,313 |
| Maryland | #429 | 9 | 1 in 2,807 |
| Colorado | #441 | 8 | 1 in 2,529 |
| Tennessee | #463 | 9 | 1 in 3,247 |
| Wisconsin | #559 | 6 | 1 in 4,385 |
| Pennsylvania | #569 | 14 | 1 in 4,638 |
| Michigan | #597 | 12 | 1 in 4,518 |
| Alabama | #598 | 5 | 1 in 4,201 |
| Louisiana | #614 | 6 | 1 in 3,736 |
| Massachusetts | #629 | 6 | 1 in 5,637 |
| Georgia | #677 | 8 | 1 in 5,094 |
| North Carolina | #678 | 7 | 1 in 5,450 |
| Washington | #697 | 6 | 1 in 4,816 |
| Florida | #785 | 12 | 1 in 6,210 |
| Ohio | #913 | 7 | 1 in 9,239 |
| Texas | #913 | 19 | 1 in 7,157 |
| New York | #964 | 14 | 1 in 7,944 |
| California | #1,016 | 28 | 1 in 8,661 |
| Illinois | #1,064 | 8 | 1 in 9,279 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kacey
- 22 spots since 2024 (#1,095 → #1,117)
- 114 spots since 2020 (#1,231 → #1,117)
- 190 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,117)
- Biggest jump: 258 spots in 1978 (#1,042 → #784)
- Biggest drop: 255 spots in 1976 (#917 → #1,172)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1991 at #577 (402 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1978–2001
- Highest: 1 in 4,664 girls born in 1991 were named Kacey (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,617 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 26.4% of all girls named Kacey (3,158) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 28 | #4,193 (1958) | #5,036 |
| 1960s | 106 | #2,454 (1969) | #4,098 |
| 1970s | 1,037 | #784 (1978) | #1,376 |
| 1980s | 2,645 | #601 (1987) | #694 |
| 1990s | 3,158 | #577 (1991) | #696 |
| 2000s | 2,172 | #843 (2000) | #1,099 |
| 2010s | 1,592 | #1,306 (2014) | #1,438 |
| 2020s | 1,223 | #1,095 (2024) | #1,172 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kacey in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 6,355 of them was named Kacey, which outranked 95.3% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 30,667 of them was named Kacey, which outranked 85.4% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,477Shlomo64
- #1,477Trenten64
- #1,477Willy64
- #1,495Kacey63
- #1,495Ameer63
- #1,495Amit63
- #1,495Arik63
- #1,516Abner62
- #1,516Broc62
- #1,516Camren62
Tied with 20 names at #1,495; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.