How common is the surname Lacey?

18,691 people in the United States had the surname Lacey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,518 Americans. It ranked 1,930th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Lacey?

Ronald Lacey, British actor (1935–1991), followed by Sam Lacey.

Where is the surname Lacey most common?

Wikidata records people named Lacey in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Is the surname Lacey getting more or less common?

More common. 17,811 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,691 in 2010, up 4.9%.

Is Lacey also a first name?

Yes. Lacey is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Lacey

A French place surname, carried by 18,691 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L200 Also a first name

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lacey is more common than 98.8% of them.

Origin

French origin

A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.

Lacey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 18,691 people named Lacey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 16,518 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,811.

#1,930

rank among US surnames

18,691

people in 2010

6.3

per 100,000 Americans

+4.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,854)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,921	Darby	18,757	16,460
#1,922	Thorne	18,738	16,477
#1,923	Mansfield	18,725	16,488
#1,924	Kyle	18,721	16,492
#1,925	Dietz	18,720	16,493
#1,926	Smallwood	18,717	16,495
#1,927	Adair	18,708	16,503

Who is named Lacey

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

72% of people named Lacey identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 72%
Black (not Hispanic) 23%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Laceys

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ronald Lacey
British actor (1935–1991)
Sam Lacey
American basketball player (1948–2014)
Catherine Lacey
American writer, born 1985
Trevor Lacey
American basketball player (born 1991)
Jesse Lacey
American musician, born 1978
Rubin Lacey
American country blues musician, 1901–1969
Catherine Lacey
British actress, 1904–1979

Notable Laceys come mostly from the United States (5), the United Kingdom (1) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Lacy
Laci
Lacie

Surnames that sound like Lacey

Lacey has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lacey come from?: Lacey is French in origin.
How common is the surname Lacey?: 18,691 people in the United States had the surname Lacey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,518 Americans. It ranked 1,930th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lacey?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Lacey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Lacey?: Ronald Lacey, British actor (1935–1991), followed by Sam Lacey.
Where is the surname Lacey most common?: Wikidata records people named Lacey in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What type of surname is Lacey?: Lacey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Lacey getting more or less common?: More common. 17,811 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,691 in 2010, up 4.9%.
What are other spellings of Lacey?: Lacy, Laci and Lacie.
Is Lacey also a first name?: Yes. Lacey is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.