Kacey

#1,117 for girls in 2025, 211 births · #1,154 for boys in 2025, 182 births
Given to girls 78.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1991 · 402 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
11,961
since 1952

Kacey over time

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201952peak #577, 1991girlsboysat peak
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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#1,117211#1,154182
2024#1,095225#1,042213
2023#1,229191#1,040210
2022#1,190202#1,078202
2021#1,169209#996220
2020#1,231185#1,177163
2019#1,326172#2,02072
2018#1,532142#3,52431
2017#1,505147#2,95140
2016#1,338177#3,52431
2015#1,307182#4,40722
2014#1,306182#3,23434
2013#1,689124#3,26533
2012#1,591136#4,00325
2011#1,409162#3,99425
2010#1,379168#3,45331
2009#1,339179#3,10537
2008#1,242202#3,00539
2007#1,326183#2,64346
2006#1,080235#2,69843
2005#1,181195#3,02234
2004#1,078213#2,56942
2003#984234#2,23848
2002#1,027211#2,24946
2001#891257#2,00753
2000#843263#1,69967
1999#772286#1,53173
1998#646357#1,48874
1997#773271#1,38679
1996#710298#1,55264
1995#734279#1,66654
1994#738281#1,49563
1993#702305#1,68052
1992#662336#1,57256
1991#577402#1,45261
1990#650343#1,39564
1989#633331#1,59050
1988#628316#1,34159
1987#601324#1,61243
1986#608316#1,53543
1985#765223#1,52443
1984#747218#1,72333
1983#630274#1,32749
1982#706249#1,77432
1981#809197#1,89929
1980#814197#1,91029
1979#829188#1,35247
1978#784194#1,65233
1977#1,042127#1,49038
1976#1,17297#1,93225
1975#917141#2,54016
1974#1,151100#2,27718
1973#1,32976#2,21618
1972#1,74950#2,99111
1971#2,21236#3,3709
1970#2,57728#2,50914
1969#2,45428#3,0629
1968#3,05718#3,1078
1967#3,21116#2,9858
1966#3,26615#3,5376
1965#5,2897#3,9305
1964#5,4747—
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First appearance
1952

The first year at least five girls were named Kacey! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1952–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Kacey is popular in 1952

No state had 5 or more girls named Kacey in 1952, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kacey
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 22 spots since 2024 (#1,095 → #1,117)
  • 114 spots since 2020 (#1,231 → #1,117)
  • 190 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,117)
  • Biggest jump: 258 spots in 1978 (#1,042 → #784)
  • Biggest drop: 255 spots in 1976 (#917 → #1,172)
Rise & fade · girls
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1952
  • Peaked 1991 at #577 (402 births)
  • Births halved by 2005, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 26 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1978–2001
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,664
  • Highest: 1 in 4,664 girls born in 1991 were named Kacey (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 7,617 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 26.4% of all girls named Kacey (3,158) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
  • Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s28#4,193 (1958)#5,036
1960s106#2,454 (1969)#4,098
1970s1,037#784 (1978)#1,376
1980s2,645#601 (1987)#694
1990s3,158#577 (1991)#696
2000s2,172#843 (2000)#1,099
2010s1,592#1,306 (2014)#1,438
2020s1,223#1,095 (2024)#1,172

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

Kacey in 1952

girls
#5,563
5 births · 1 in 370,867 girls

Top girls' names in 1952

  1. #1Linda67,082
  2. #2Mary65,629
  3. #3Patricia53,101
  4. #4Deborah49,811
  5. #5Susan41,348
  6. #6Barbara39,864
  7. #7Nancy31,739
  8. #8Karen28,956
  9. #9Debra26,832
  10. #10Sandra26,097
  11. #5,563Kacey5
More about 1952

girls

1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 370,867 of them was named Kacey, which outranked 12.9% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kacey
  1. #4,908Zanna6
  2. #4,908Zelinda6
  3. #4,908Zeta6
  4. #5,563Kacey5
  5. #5,563Adaline5
  6. #5,563Adean5
  7. #5,563Adelfa5

Tied with 826 names at #5,563; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1951
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,501Pandora#3,284 → #783
  2. ↑ 368Lise#1,314 → #946
  3. ↑ 353Vanessa#656 → #303
  4. ↑ 334Dorinda#1,170 → #836
  5. ↑ 332Mitzi#928 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 380Rhona#988 → #1,368
  2. ↓ 342Sharleen#765 → #1,107
  3. ↓ 270Enid#908 → #1,178
  4. ↓ 237Allyn#988 → #1,225
  5. ↓ 230Sheron#908 → #1,138

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

See the top 100 for 1952 →