Legaci
Legaci was the 2165th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 86 babies. Its best year was 2021, when it ranked 1395th with 157 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 3,595 places. More babies were named Legaci in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Meaning (as Legacy) something handed down (English word) · English, Latin
- Rank in 2025
- #2,165 girls, down 527 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 86girls
- Girls and boys
- 85% girls, 15% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 2021157 babies
- Total since 1880
- 1,213babies recorded
What does the name Legaci mean?
Legaci is a spelling of Legacy, pronounced the same way, so it shares Legacy's meaning and origin.
Legacy is a modern American word name, taken from the English noun for money or property left in a will, and more broadly anything handed down from earlier generations. The word came into Middle English from Old French, from Medieval Latin legatia, built on Latin legatus, the past participle of legare, to send as a deputy or to bequeath. Its first English sense was the office of a legate, an envoy. As a given name it has no older tradition; it suggests inheritance and family continuity.
legacie (Middle English, “office of a deputy; bequest”)legare (Latin, “to depute, bequeath”)
How sure is this? Well established. The word's history is well documented; its use as a first name is a recent US coinage with no older history.
See also: English names.
Sources for this meaning
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th ed., entry 'legacy' (etymology), HarperCollins / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Wiktionary, entry 'legacy' (English section), Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0; facts restated, no text reused)
Legaci popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
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| 2025 | #2,165 | #7,468 | 86 | 11 |
| 2020 | #1,638 | #5,373 | 127 | 17 |
| 2010 | #10,181 | — | 11 | — |
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How popular is Legaci, counting every spelling?
Legaci is a spelling of Legacy, a name family that ranked #536 for girls in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #2,165 for Legaci on its own. Together these spellings went to 567 girls in 2025.
| Spelling | Babies 2025 | Official rank | Babies 2021–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy | 429 | #662 | 2,861 |
| Legaci | 86 | #2,165 | 569 |
| Legacie | 33 | #4,308 | 183 |
| Legacee | 13 | #8,136 | 94 |
Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.
How many kids will share the name Legaci?
86 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Legaci (0.02 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Legaci born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 98 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Legaci.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Legaci?
About 1,100 people born in the US named Legaci are alive today, with a median age of 5; half are between 3 and 8. That makes Legaci a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Legaci by state
How common Legaci was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Louisiana (5.4×), North Carolina (2.1×), Michigan (1.8×), Georgia (1.8×), Virginia (1.7×). In 35 states fewer than five girls a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Legaci: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Legaci, they share its era and feel.
Questions about the name Legaci
What does Legaci mean?
Legaci is a spelling of Legacy, which means “something handed down (English word)” (English, Latin origin). Certainty: well established.
How popular is the name Legaci?
Legaci was the 2165th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 86 babies. Its best year was 2021, when it ranked 1395th with 157 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 3,595 places. More babies were named Legaci in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Is Legaci a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 85% girls, 15% boys given the name Legaci in the US.
Where is Legaci most popular?
In 2021–2025, Legaci was most common in Louisiana (0.38 per 1,000 girls), followed by Mississippi and Arkansas.