Cacey
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cacey has been given to 230 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1995, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Cacey, 2018
1 in 703,000
Cacey over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Cacey over time
In 2019, Cacey went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Cacey?
Cacey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cacey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cacey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caceys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cacey was born before 1992 — so the typical Cacey is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 207
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (83).
Is Cacey 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (13)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.2% average annual change
Spellings of Cacey
Cacey is not the most common spelling — Cathy is, with 15.9% against Cacey's 0.02%.
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.
Cacey around the world
Where Cacey 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 & Wales2004–2011#2,636in 2011
- South Australia2000–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cacey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Cacey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cacey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.