Pacey
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in England and Wales.
Pacey by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Pacey. In the US, 19 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 52 babies in 2001, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Pacey
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Pacey. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Pacepeace39 in the US (2017)
- Pacer6 in the US (2017)
- Paddynoble; a diminutive of Patrick49 in England and Wales (2025)
- Pavelsmall or humble; form of Paul15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Parleyto speak or converse; discussion12 in the US (2017)
- Pattynoble; diminutive of patricia or patricia7 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Pacey
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