Pacey
- #10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
- Given to boys 69.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 52 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 718since 1998
Pacey over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #10,917 | 8 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #4,571 | 22 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #3,740 | 29 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #2,567 | 43 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #2,922 | 33 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #2,027 | 52 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #2,674 | 34 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #5,466 | 11 |
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First appearance
1998
The first year at least five boys were named Pacey! It came in at #5,466, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2013, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Pacey is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Pacey in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Pacey
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 32 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #4,539)
- 264 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #4,539)
- 968 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #4,539)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2001 at #2,027 (52 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 37,363
- Highest: 1 in 37,363 boys born in 2001 were named Pacey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 48.7% of all boys named Pacey (350) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 35 | #3,279 (1999) | #4,373 |
| 2000s | 350 | #2,027 (2001) | #3,036 |
| 2010s | 191 | #3,377 (2010) | #5,238 |
| 2020s | 142 | #3,740 (2021) | #4,350 |
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.
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