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How popular is the name Lacey?
Births per year, rank history and how many Laceys are alive today.
Lacey (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 478th in 2025 with 83 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 1,571 babies were given the name, the 36th most popular that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 5% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 13,000 babies have been named Lacey in England and Wales since 1996. Lacey is one spelling of a name also recorded as Lacie and Lacy; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Lacey you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Laceys born in England and Wales are between 12 and 18, and there are at least 17,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 5.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Lacey.
How many babies are named Lacey each year?
Includes all spellings: Lacey, Lacie, Lacy. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Lacey spelling rank?
Where does the Lacie spelling rank?
Where does the Lacy spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Lacey most popular?
Lacey peaked in 2010, when 1,859 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Lacey?
At least 17,000 people named Lacey in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lacey?
Most living Laceys are between 12 and 18; the most common age is about 15.
Is Lacey becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2010 peak.