first name
LACY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,544 people named Lacy, 82.9% reported their origin as White, 7.3% as Black and 4% as two or more races. 88.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Lacy peaked in 1982, when 1,015 babies got the name.
At least 26,685 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Lacy by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #552. The largest share of babies named Lacy, 44.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Lacy is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lacy has been most common in North Carolina (3.5×), Oklahoma (2.9×), and West Virginia (2.9×), and least common in New York (0.12×).
19,847 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Lacy
Spelled almost the same
5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lacy, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Lacy ranks #1,591 of 156,621, with 22,007 people. See Lacy as a last name
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