Lacey

Where Lacey comes from

The dictionaries list Lacey as a given name — a unisex given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • From a surname
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1982
    Lacey Duvalle born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 1982
    Lacey Chabert born
    American film actress and producer
  5. 1984
    Peak, #116
    2,399 babies named Lacey — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #277.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  • A place in the United States:
  • A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
Namesakes
  • Lacey Chabert · American film actress and producer, born 1982
  • Lacey Duvalle · American pornographic actress, born 1982
  • Lacey Sturm · American singer, born 1981
  • Lacey Turner · British actress, born 1988
  • Lacey Nymeyer · American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world champion, former world record-holder, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.