Lacy

Lacy is the 1,591st most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,007 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,600.

By the numbers

People: 22,007
Rank: 1,591st
How common: 1 in 13,600
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lacy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 60.5%
Black, not Hispanic 29.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lacy

Jake Lacy (born 1985)American actor
Peter von Lacy (1678–1751)Irish general in Russia
Steve Lacy (1934–2004)American jazz musician
Preston Lacy (born 1969)American stuntman and actor
Venus Lacy (born 1967)American basketball player

People named Lacy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lacy

Also a first name

Lacy has been given to 26,685 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1982. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.