Lacy - Meaning of Lacy

What does Lacy mean?

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Lacy

[ 2 syll. la-cy, lac-y ] The baby girl name Lacy is also used as a boy name, though it is slightly more popular for girls. It is pronounced as LEY-Siy- †. Lacy is of Old French and Old Greek origin. It is used mainly in English. The first name is derived from a surname which is itself a variant of Lacey.

Lacy is a spelling variant of the English Lacey.

Lacy is also a diminutive of the German and Russian Larissa.

See also the related categories, english, greek, and french.

Lacy is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked in 1983 with 0.054% of baby girls being named Lacy. It had a ranking of #242 then. The baby name has fallen out of favor since then, and is used only on a very modest scale today. Among the family of girl names directly related to Lacy, Lacey was the most commonly used in 2018. Although Lacy is somewhat used more commonly as a baby girl name today, there was a period prior to 1968 that it was more popular with boys. After 1975, increasingly the name became more popular with baby girls than with boys.

Baby names that sound like Lacy include Lacee, Lacey, Laci, Lacie, Lacye, Laycee, Layci, Laycie, Laasya, Laasyah, Lachesis, Lacia, Laela, Lahja, Laia, Laica, Laicee, Laicey, Laila, and Lailah.

† Pronunciation for Lacy: L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"