Laci
- Pronunciation
- [La-ci]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Derived From Lacey Which Is A French Nobleman's Surname Brought To British Isles After Norman Conquest.
- Origin
- French
About the Name Laci
Laci is a spelling variant of Lacey, a name derived from a Norman French aristocratic surname — de Laci or de Lassy — brought to Britain after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The surname itself traces back to a place called Lassy in Calvados, Normandy, and the family that bore it became one of the notable Norman noble houses in England and Ireland. Over centuries the surname moved into given-name use, and the soft -ie ending of Laci gives it a warm, informal quality that distinguishes it visually from the more standard Lacey and Lacy spellings.
Laci first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2003 — also its peak year, reaching its best rank of #438. Its top-1000 window was brief but intense: the name last charted in 2008 at #958 with 281 births, and the intervening years show strong mid-decade figures — 412 births at #685 in 2006 and 394 births at #741 in 2007. In total, 2,937 top-1000 births were recorded across its six-year run, making it one of the more compact but genuine chart presences in this batch.
The name's trajectory reflects the brief but real appeal of its parent Lacey cluster in the mid-2000s — a period when Norman-origin surname names carried a certain fashionable lightness. Laci's three-letter, two-syllable form is breezy and easy to carry, and its Norman heritage gives it a historical backstory deeper than its casual appearance suggests. Recorded variants include Lacee and Lacy, completing the small spelling family built on the same French surname foundation.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Laci
US Popularity History (2003–2008)
Annual US births named Laci by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2003 with 686 girls named Laci (girl rank #438 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2008, ranked #958 for girls (281 US births). That's 520 places below its 2003 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Laci Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2010–2019 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Laci the strongest states are Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kentucky | #669 | 18 |
| 2 | Alabama | #739 | 24 |
| 3 | Tennessee | #780 | 41 |
| 4 | North Carolina | #863 | 40 |
| 5 | Louisiana | #878 | 27 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Louisiana | #878 | 27 |
| 2 | North Carolina | #863 | 40 |
| 3 | Tennessee | #780 | 41 |
| 4 | Alabama | #739 | 24 |
| 5 | Kentucky | #669 | 18 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2010–2019. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Laci in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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