Dacey is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Dacey in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dacey in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Dacey by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Dacey ranks at #8,923. That means there are 8,922 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dacey.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Dacey. Girls named Dacey have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,039 Dacey ranked higher than ever before in 1999. By comparison, there have been 103 years in which the first name Dacey has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Dacey only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dacey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Dacey continues to be a precious jewel: 12 newborns were named Dacey that year, ranking #7,418 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Dacey, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Dacey, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in North Carolina and Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Dacey living in one state or another (if your name is Dacey and you live outside of North Carolina and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 533,596 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Dacey. So, if your name is Dacey it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Dacey already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Dacey is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Dacey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dacey, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dacey
Dacey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
C
E
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
C
E
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dacey sounds like this:
