Laci
Feminine · “from Lassy”
Lacey is a place in Normandy. The village of Lassy gave a Norman family its name, the family came to England in 1066 and became powerful enough that whole districts still carry it, and the surname eventually crossed the Atlantic and moved to the front of the name. Laci is the American respelling with an i.
How old is the name Laci?
Laci first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Laci alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 9,500 people named Laci are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laci most popular?
Laci peaked in 2003, reaching #437 nationally. Today it ranks #4987, 4,550 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lassy to Laci
The story of Laci
The de Lacy family were among the more successful Norman incomers, holding land in Herefordshire, Yorkshire and Ireland, and the surname spread far beyond them. It became an American first name in the twentieth century, for girls chiefly, helped by the English word lacy, which has nothing to do with it. The -i ending belongs to the middle of the last century, the same habit that produced Jodi, Toni and Traci, and it distinguishes the name from the adjective in writing.
Meaning
from Lassy, a place in Normandy
Norman French de Lassy, of Lassy, a village in Calvados. The place name itself is probably from a Gaulish personal name with a Latin ending, which is how a great many Norman village names were formed.
How the name formed
- Lassy
- de Lacy
- Lacey
- Laci
Related forms: Lacey · Lassy
Pronouncing Laci
LAY-see
Two syllables, stress in front. Lacey, Lacy and Laci are said identically.
Nicknames for Laci
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
- 1962
- Most girls named
- 2003686 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #437reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- −29.7%26 in 2025, from 37
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.
Laci in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lacey in English — spelling variant
- Lassy in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
Lacis among us
people named Laci are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 61,818 born in 2025 was named Laci
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Laci
- #4987
- Laci on the 2025 chart
- #867
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Laci went to 26 girls in 2025, but Lacy is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 93, which makes it the 867th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,120 places above the chart.
- Lacy67
- Laci26
About 1 girl in 17,282 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,818 for Laci itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ashly test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Laci's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ashly climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ashly's path sketches the road Laci is walking now.
Laci 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 Laci is headed
Laci is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Laci beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Laci in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a documented Norman family with a real village behind it.
- It is short, phonetic and easy to write after one hearing.
- The sound is entirely familiar in English-speaking countries.
- Lacey is the commonest spelling and will be written instead.
- The English word lacy is a homophone, which children notice.
- The -i ending places the name in the middle of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lacis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,500 people named Laci are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Laci?
- Laci is one of 2 recorded spellings. Lacy is the more common one — 67 births in 2025 against 26 for Laci.
- How popular is the name Laci in 2025?
- Laci ranks #4987 among US girl names in 2025, with 26 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Laci?
- About 1 in every 61,818 US girls born in 2025 was named Laci — 26 in all.
- Will my child share the name Laci with classmates?
- Laci will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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