Entry № 5077 · Irish origin

Kacey Kacey — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAY-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Vigilant (Kacey Musgraves, Grammy Album of the Year)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Irish)

A name that means "vigilant (kacey musgraves, grammy album of the year)".

Kacey is an anglicized variant of the Irish Cathasaigh ("vigilant in war") — also linked to the K-spelled diminutive of Katherine. Kacey Musgraves (born 1988)American country singer-songwriter; 2019 Grammy Album of the Year for Golden Hour (2018) — only the third country album in the 21st century to win the all-genre top prize. Six Grammy Awards total including Best Country Album twice (2014, 2019). Her songwriting on "Follow Your Arrow" (2013) made her a vocal LGBTQ+ ally in mainstream country music when that was still rare. Country Music Association Album of the Year (2018, 2024). Star-Crossed Tour (2022) crossed $1M per show. A top-1000 US baby name since 2014. Casey at the Bat (1888)** — the canonical American baseball poem.

Subject of countless music industry profiles.

Vigilant. Six Grammys including the all-genre Album of the Year for Golden Hour.

The name in its native script.

Kacey
Transliteration
Kacey
Pronunciation
/ ˈkeɪ.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kacey stands.

Kacey does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kaceys before her.

Real people
Kacey Musgraves
American country singer-songwriter.
born 1988
In fiction
Kacey
Various American TV.

Names connected to Kacey.

The number behind Kacey.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kacey reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.