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.
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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 8,738 of them was named Kacey, which outranked 93.0% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,227Essence186
- #1,227Nailah186
- #1,227Zion186
- #1,231Kacey185
- #1,231Ailyn185
- #1,231Emilie185
- #1,231Rita185
- #1,236Amethyst184
- #1,236Elayna184
- #1,236Imogen184
Tied with 4 names at #1,231; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 10,589 of them was named Kacey, which outranked 91.6% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,172Gibson164
- #1,172Gilbert164
- #1,172Gus164
- #1,177Kacey163
- #1,177Aksel163
- #1,177Andreas163
- #1,177Ansel163
- #1,189Gilberto162
- #1,189Jai162
- #1,189Koen162
Tied with 11 names at #1,177; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.