Lacey is a variant of Lacy, originally a surname that was derived from Lassy, the name of a town in Normandy. Both names were boy’s names, that, however, have been given primarily to girls since the 1970s.
Lacey is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lacey isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lacey ranks 541. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Lacey. In the entire USA, approximately 50,660 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lacey. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Lacey occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Lacey is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Lacey is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 50,617 women and girls of all generations bear the name Lacey – that is one in 3,046. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Utah, where one in 984 women and girls is called Lacey, while it is particularly rare in Rhode Island, where you have to ask an average of 37,255 women for their name to get Lacey as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With five letters, the name Lacey 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.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lacey 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 Lacey, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lacey
Lacey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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A
C
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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. Lacey sounds like this:
