Humanverse

Staci vs Stacie

American parents have registered 39,317 Stacies since 1880, against 25,539 Stacis. Stacie is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Staci against Stacie, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Staci Stacie

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 94 years in which either name was published, Stacie for 91 years and Staci for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Staci Stacie
Total US births 25,53939,317
Most in one year 1,1842,575
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 24,00037,000
Median age today 4849
Peak year 19711971
Best rank 250th girls131st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19501900
Girls / boys 25,480 / 5939,119 / 198

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Staci Stacie
England and Wales 13356
France 20310
Scotland 45173

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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