Kacy
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 83.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 174 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,049since 1956
Kacy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #4,147 | 35 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #3,777 | 40 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #3,267 | 50 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #2,311 | 83 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #2,375 | 79 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #2,014 | 93 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #1,909 | 98 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #1,733 | 109 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #1,897 | 93 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #1,678 | 98 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #1,774 | 88 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #1,682 | 93 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #1,238 | 141 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | #1,214 | 141 | #3,191 | 21 |
| 1994 | #1,217 | 144 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #1,318 | 127 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #1,034 | 180 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #1,033 | 178 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #957 | 196 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #982 | 176 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #999 | 164 | #2,146 | 29 |
| 1987 | #941 | 174 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #984 | 160 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #976 | 157 | #2,071 | 27 |
| 1984 | #1,004 | 143 | #2,036 | 26 |
| 1983 | #959 | 152 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #988 | 149 | #2,207 | 23 |
| 1981 | #1,050 | 136 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #1,034 | 138 | #2,284 | 22 |
| 1979 | #964 | 150 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | #1,078 | 122 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #1,576 | 68 | #2,131 | 22 |
| 1976 | #1,551 | 65 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #1,459 | 70 | #1,505 | 35 |
| 1974 | #1,760 | 51 | #1,692 | 28 |
| 1973 | #1,773 | 49 | #1,548 | 31 |
| 1972 | #1,890 | 44 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,375 | 32 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #2,585 | 26 | #1,810 | 21 |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 | #2,030 | 16 |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 | #2,327 | 12 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kacy! It came in at #4,161, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kacy is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#339 · 1 in 2,182
- Alabama#416 · 1 in 2,571
- Indiana#677 · 1 in 5,482
- Tennessee#736 · 1 in 5,923
- Missouri#741 · 1 in 5,910
Best ever in a state: #215 in Montana, 1982.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #339 | 9 | 1 in 2,182 |
| Alabama | #416 | 8 | 1 in 2,571 |
| Indiana | #677 | 6 | 1 in 5,482 |
| Tennessee | #736 | 5 | 1 in 5,923 |
| Missouri | #741 | 5 | 1 in 5,910 |
| Ohio | #782 | 9 | 1 in 6,902 |
| Georgia | #884 | 6 | 1 in 6,918 |
| Florida | #912 | 10 | 1 in 7,273 |
| Michigan | #1,067 | 5 | 1 in 10,410 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,142 | 5 | 1 in 12,110 |
| Illinois | #1,154 | 7 | 1 in 10,207 |
| California | #1,953 | 10 | 1 in 22,978 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kacy
- 2,400 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #8,362)
- 2,695 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #8,362)
- 4,595 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 114 spots in 1979 (#1,078 → #964)
- Biggest drop: 76 spots in 1991 (#957 → #1,033)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1987 at #941 (174 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1985–1990
- Highest: 1 in 9,686 girls born in 1990 were named Kacy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #941 in 1987, was only 1 in 9,992 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.7% of all girls named Kacy (1,549) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 34 | #3,930 (1957) | #4,411 |
| 1960s | 102 | #2,585 (1969) | #3,640 |
| 1970s | 681 | #964 (1979) | #1,688 |
| 1980s | 1,549 | #941 (1987) | #992 |
| 1990s | 1,386 | #957 (1990) | #1,315 |
| 2000s | 813 | #1,733 (2003) | #2,306 |
| 2010s | 382 | #3,267 (2011) | #4,011 |
| 2020s | 102 | #5,573 (2021) | #6,923 |
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.
Kacy in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 12,433 of them was named Kacy, which outranked 92.2% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,232Makaila142
- #1,232Salina142
- #1,232Shaniah142
- #1,238Kacy141
- #1,238Camilla141
- #1,238Corrine141
- #1,238Elle141
- #1,246Ada140
- #1,246Breona140
- #1,246Emmalee140
Tied with 7 names at #1,238; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 75,772 of them was named Kacy, which outranked 72.4% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,838Vinay26
- #2,838Yanni26
- #2,838Zuriel26
- #2,911Kacy25
- #2,911Adel25
- #2,911Alaric25
- #2,911Aleczander25
- #3,021Ajani24
- #3,021Alecsander24
- #3,021Amanda24
Tied with 109 names at #2,911; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.