The LACY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,250	1467	0.008	82
United States (1880 census)	8,012	752	0.016	160
Change since 1880	+14238	-715	-0.008	-78
Other Countries
Australia	418	3767	0.003	26
United Kingdom	1,214	4468	0.003	26

Top States for LACY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,210	834	0.015	154
California	1,847	1838	0.005	55
Virginia	989	955	0.014	140
Ohio	973	1454	0.009	86
Illinois	961	1364	0.008	77
Top States for LACY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	554	653	0.021	207
West Virginia	353	827	0.020	195
Alabama	755	1030	0.017	170
Mississippi	450	1029	0.016	158
Texas	3,210	834	0.015	154

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LACY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LACY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LACY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LACY by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LACY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LACY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LACY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LACY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	429	1.93
White (Hispanic)	378	1.7
Native American/Alaskan	149	0.67
Asian/Pacific	107	0.48
White (Caucasian)	14,732	66.21
Black/African American	6,455	29.01

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LACY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LACY in historical publications

LACY. Roger de Laci, eldest son of Walter de L., came over with William the Conqueror, and was rewarded with the tenure in capite of IIG lordships. To Ilbert de Laci the Conqueror gave the castle and town of Pontefract, co. York,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

(origin: Local) Derived from a place in France by that name. Sire De Lacy came into England with William the Conqueror. The Lacys afterward settled in Ireland.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

Similar names to LACY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LACY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.