Pacey

Where Pacey comes from

The dictionaries list Pacey as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1998
    First appearance
    #5,466 among boys, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2001
    Peak, #2,027
    52 babies named Pacey — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,011.
  4. 2017
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Pacey hasn't yet.

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.