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Acie

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Acie has been given to 2,143 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Acie, 2023

1 in 414,000

Acie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Acie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Acie means

Acie is a given name.

The naming story behind Acie

Wikidata records Acie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q4674148, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,071 boys were recorded with the name Acie between 1881 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1928; its best national rank was #723 in 1889.

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Acie between 1920 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,304 in 1926.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Acie?

Acie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 214,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Acie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Acie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Acies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Acie was born before 1940 — so the typical Acie is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
790
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1920s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (365).

Is Acie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (45)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#723
1889

Spellings of Acie

Acie is not the most common spelling — Jace is, with 14.0% against Acie's 0.32%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Acie is used

Across 1910–2025, Acie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 291,251 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Kentucky1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Acie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Acie around the world

Where Acie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Acie

People whose public names include Acie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Acie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#723
1889
Peak year
1928
45 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,071
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,304
1926
Peak year
2022
11 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Acie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

OcieAcielAcireAcianoTracieStacieAcilKacieLacieMaciePercieGracieKelcieArcieAlcieKaycieMarcieChancieDacieRecieAccieJacieDorcieLegacie

Names with a curve like Acie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Acie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GarnetChesleyMalvinHilaryRudolfBurleyManleyEarlieThorntonAudreyWeltonLeamon

Sibling names for Acie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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