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Lacee vs Lacinda

American parents have registered 2,557 Lacees since 1880, against 922 Lacindas. Lacee is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lacee against Lacinda, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lacee Lacinda

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 81 years in which either name was published, Lacee for 49 years and Lacinda for 32 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Lacee Lacinda
Total US births 2,557922
Most in one year 11839
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,500820
Median age today 3256
Peak year 19911963
Best rank 1,371st girls1,867th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 19691943
Girls / boys 2,557 / 0922 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lacindas alive today are over 56; half the Lacees are over 32. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lacee and Lacinda.