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Lacey
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Usage
Origin and Meaning
English name
1) Transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name meaning 'from Lassy, Calvados' [1]
The name of the town derives from the Gaulish name Lascius [2]
2) Seems to have been influenced by association with the vocabulary word 'lace', denoting an ornamental trimming (Old French laz = 'braid', from Latin laqueus = 'noose' [1] [3]
Related Names
| Lacey | ♀ |   |
 
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| Lacy | ♂ |  |
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| Laicy | ♀ | |
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Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[4] |
|
4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
 Denmark[5] |
 |
0 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
 Norway[6] |
|
0 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Finland[7] |
|
n.a. | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Lacey.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
- ↑ Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi