Jacie
Feminine
Jacie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 4,230 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Jacie is a short American name of recent make, sitting between the initials J. C. said aloud and the -acie ending that Gracie, Macie and Stacie share. It has been in the records since the 1980s.
How old is the name Jacie?
Jacie first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Jacie alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 4,200 people named Jacie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacie most popular?
Jacie peaked in 2005, reaching #1115 nationally. Today it ranks #3130, 2,015 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jacie
Our reading, offered as ours. Jacie is what happens when a set of initials stops being an abbreviation and becomes a name in its own right — a move American naming has made over and over, with JD, CJ, TJ and Jaycee. Written this way, with the -acie of Gracie and Macie, it stops looking like shorthand at all. That is the whole trick of the name: it has the warmth of a nickname and the shape of a full one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Two genuine neighbors exist: the American habit of writing initials as a name, which gave Jaycee and JC; and the Tupi-Guarani word for the moon, Jaci, a real word in a real language that this spelling resembles without being drawn from.
Pronouncing Jacie
JAY-see
Two syllables, first stressed. It sounds identical to Jaycee and JC.
Nicknames for Jacie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1920
- Most girls named
- 2006191 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1115reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −5.6%51 in 2025, from 54
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jacie in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Louisiana, Georgia.
Jacies among us
people named Jacie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was named Jacie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Janina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jacie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janina climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janina's path sketches the road Jacie is walking now.
Jacie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jacie is headed
Jacie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jacie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jacie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Five letters, two syllables, and never mispronounced by an English speaker.
- It rhymes with Gracie, Macie and Stacie, so it sits easily among familiar names.
- Short enough for a small child to write in her first year of school.
- Jaycee, Jacey, Jaci and JC are all the same sound, so the spelling will be asked for every time.
- There is no documented meaning behind it.
- It reads as a nickname to some people, which may matter on a formal document.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,200 people named Jacie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jacie in 2025?
- Jacie ranks #3130 among US girl names in 2025, with 51 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jacie?
- About 1 in every 31,515 US girls born in 2025 was named Jacie — 51 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jacie with classmates?
- Jacie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jacie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Janylah#3130 · Robbie#3130 · Lillyanna#3130 · Bayla#3130 · Karmyn#3130 · Advika#3130 · Samari#3130 · Precious#3130
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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