Staci

Where Staci comes from

The dictionaries list Staci as a given name — a unisex given name from Ancient Greek, a 20th-century spelling variant of Stacy — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #4,738 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Peak, #225
    1,123 babies named Staci — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    Staci Keanan born
    American actress
  4. 1976
    Staci Wilson born
    American soccer player
  5. 1991
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #479.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Ancient Greek, a 20th-century spelling variant of Stacy.
Namesakes
  • Staci Keanan · American actress, born 1975
  • Staci Wilson · American soccer player, born 1976
  • Staci Appel · American politician, born 1966
  • Staci Greason · American actress, born 1964

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.