Acey

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to boys 87.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1886 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
441
since 1886

Acey over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201935peak #959, 1886girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#11,9327—
2024#15,2935#10,9386
2023#15,1945#8,2559
2022#8,54212#12,3305
2021#11,1468#12,1465
2020#15,0885—
2019——
2018—#9,6707
2017——
2016#14,3316—
2015#16,4195#10,6446
2014#13,0697—
2013——
2012—#8,8648
2011——
2010——
2009—#10,9946
2008—#9,8717
2007——
2006#17,1685#12,0555
2005——
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2002—#9,3926
2001——
2000—#10,3495
1999——
1998—#9,6315
1997—#8,1106
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1994—#7,7706
1993—#8,7005
1992—#6,1288
1991——
1990—#5,8238
1989——
1988—#7,2705
1987—#5,4597
1986—#6,7215
1985—#5,7856
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1981—#6,2625
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1975—#4,3097
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1971—#4,3756
1970—#3,8367
1969—#3,9356
1968—#3,6736
1967—#3,9665
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1963—#4,0485
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1958—#3,2757
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1954—#3,4526
1953—#3,4256
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1951—#3,3646
1950—#3,3296
1949—#3,2986
1948—#3,3166
1947—#2,8628
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1944—#2,8627
1943—#2,7328
1942—#3,2126
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1940—#2,8717
1939—#2,8297
1938—#2,8687
1937—#2,6808
1936—#3,1476
1935—#2,9517
1934—#2,5639
1933—#2,7388
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1930—#3,5926
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1928—#4,1515
1927—#3,1518
1926—#4,2015
1925—#3,4087
1924—#2,47312
1923—#3,1758
1922—#3,8726
1921—#3,8696
1920—#3,4897
1919—#2,66510
1918—#2,54311
1917—#3,9815
1916—#2,54310
1915—#3,3926
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1913—#2,8215
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1904—#1,2055
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1886—#9595
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First appearance
1886

The first year at least five boys were named Acey! It came in at #959, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1886–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Acey is popular in 1935

No state had 5 or more boys named Acey in 1935, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Acey
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1886
  • Peaked 1886 at #959 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1887, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1886
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,157
  • Highest: 1 in 22,157 boys born in 1886 were named Acey (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 14.5% of all boys named Acey (64) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#959 (1886)#959
1890s0——
1900s5#1,205 (1904)#1,205
1910s47#2,543 (1918)#2,991
1920s64#2,473 (1924)#3,532
1930s58#2,563 (1934)#2,921
1940s48#2,732 (1943)#3,022
1950s31#3,275 (1958)#3,369
1960s22#3,673 (1968)#3,906
1970s20#3,836 (1970)#4,173
1980s28#5,459 (1987)#6,299
1990s38#5,823 (1990)#7,694
2000s29#9,392 (2002)#10,532
2010s21#8,864 (2012)#9,726
2020s25#8,255 (2023)#10,917

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Acey in 1935

boys
#2,951
7 births · 1 in 148,764 boys

Top boys' names in 1935

  1. #1Robert56,527
  2. #2James55,005
  3. #3John47,509
  4. #4William40,204
  5. #5Richard33,946
  6. #6Charles29,983
  7. #7Donald29,674
  8. #8George18,564
  9. #9Thomas17,684
  10. #10Joseph17,181
  11. #2,951Acey7
More about 1935

boys

1,041,351 boys got a published name in 1935; 1 in 148,764 of them was named Acey, which outranked 28.8% of the 4,146 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Acey
  1. #2,719Woodroe8
  2. #2,719Yates8
  3. #2,719Zigmund8
  4. #2,951Acey7
  5. #2,951Abdul7
  6. #2,951Achille7
  7. #2,951Ada7
  8. #3,252Abdon6
  9. #3,252Adams6
  10. #3,252Agustine6

Tied with 300 names at #2,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1934
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,371Darwyn#2,121 → #750
  2. ↑ 678Landon#1,608 → #930
  3. ↑ 678Stafford#1,658 → #980
  4. ↑ 666Lance#1,658 → #992
  5. ↑ 492Delwin#1,461 → #969
Fallers
  1. ↓ 534Estel#792 → #1,326
  2. ↓ 493Gustav#897 → #1,390
  3. ↓ 381Florian#845 → #1,226
  4. ↓ 353Laurie#942 → #1,295
  5. ↓ 342Valentin#931 → #1,273

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1935 →