Stacy

162,109 people in America carry this name — ranked #345 of 923.

A name with a settled sense and a settled sound.

Say it STAY see

2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

S T EY1 S IY0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 162,109 2020 Census
  • Rank #345 Common
  • Per 100,000 53.7 about 1 in 2,045 people

The meaning and origin of Stacy

Greek in origin, reading literally as “resurrection”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

How often Stacy has been given

185,458 babies were given this name since 1880. The busiest year was 1971, with 10,141 of them.

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Most people carrying it were born in the 1970s. It has been given less often of late.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

Middle names for Stacy

Two syllables sit with almost anything — the join matters more than the length.

Better avoided

  • Stacy Susan — same opening
  • Stacy Sarah — same opening
  • Stacy Stephanie — same opening

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

Going quiet

Stacy has more than halved in three decades. The people carrying it belong mostly to Generation X.

Boys or girls: who is called Stacy?

9.6% men
146,488 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Spellings of Stacy

Stacy is how 54% of them spell it — 297,928 people answer to the sound.

Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Names with the same rhythm as Stacy

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 2 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

Full names people carry

The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.

Who carries it today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 78.9%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 9.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 6.3%
  • Two or more races — 2.8%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 1.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.7%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

Try it First-Year Costs

Open First-Year Costs on its own page

Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Greek origin