Stacey

Where Stacey comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Stacey.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Stacey through the years
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1944
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1967
    Stacey Dash born
    American actress
  4. 1971
    Peak, #41
    7,482 babies named Stacey, the most in any year.
  5. 1973
    Stacey Abrams born
    American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author
  6. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #85.
In the dictionary
  • An English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred back from the surname.
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek popular in the 1970s, from the surname, sometimes also explained as a short form of Anastasia.
Namesakes
  • Stacey Abrams · American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author, born 1973
  • Stacey Dash · American actress, born 1967
  • Stacey Augmon · American basketball player, born 1968
  • Stacey Kent · American recording artist; singer, born 1968
  • Stacey King · American basketball player and announcer, 1967–2026

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.