Lacy

Where Lacy comes from

The dictionaries list Lacy as a given name — a unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • From a surname
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1937
    Lacy Duarte born
    Uruguayan painter
  3. 1946
    Lacy J. Dalton born
    American musician
  4. 1969
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1983
    Peak, #242
    972 babies named Lacy — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #556.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage, variant of Lacey.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Lacey.
Namesakes
  • Lacy J. Dalton · American musician, born 1946
  • Lacy Duarte · Uruguayan painter, 1937–2015
  • Lacy Gibson · American blues guitarist, 1936–2011
  • Lacy Janson · American pole vaulter, born 1983
  • Lacy Thornburg · American politician, born 1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.