Given name & surname · also Gaelic, Irish
Dacey
“woman.from the South”·“a man from the south”·“a man from Dacia”
Dacey is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “woman.from the South”, “a man from the south”, and “a man from Dacia”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “woman.from the South”, “a man from the south”, and “a man from Dacia”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Irish and Latin naming traditions. The precise derivation is uncertain.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dacey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 648
- 0 boys · 648 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 39 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −49%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 39 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 633 as a first name in 2020; 1,602 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dacey’s family of names
Dacey has a related form in Dacia. Dacey has a related form in Daicy. Dacey has a related form in Dacy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 27
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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