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Lacie vs Lacinda

American parents have registered 10,831 Lacies since 1880, against 922 Lacindas. Lacie is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lacie against Lacinda, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lacie 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 113 years in which either name was published, Lacie for 83 years and Lacinda for 30 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Lacie Lacinda
Total US births 10,831922
Most in one year 38039
Babies in 2025 75under 5
Estimated living today 10,000820
Median age today 3156
Peak year 19891963
Best rank 577th girls1,867th girls
Rank in 2025 2,387thunranked
First recorded 18981943
Girls / boys 10,789 / 42922 / 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 Lacies are over 31. That is 25 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: Lacie and Lacinda.