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Girl · Norman French place name
Lacey
Say it: LAY-see
Meaning
From a Norman surname taken from Lassy in Normandy; the place name is from a Gallo-Roman estate name.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used as a boys' name in the 19th century and as a girls' name mainly from the 1970s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1980s
In the United States
- 53,421 babies given this name since 1886
- At its height in 1983, about 1 in 701 girls
- 385 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Lacy, Laci, Lacie
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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