Lacey

Derived from an Old French surname tied to the commune of Lassy in Normandy, which crossed to England after the Conquest. In America, it lived quietly on rural ledgers before vaulting into mainstream girl-name territory in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A 1982 television police drama and country music radio helped anchor its modern American footprint.

A Lacey sounds like she owns an organized collection of lip gloss and arrived on the scene right around the mid-1980s. The name carries an energetic, cheer-squad brightness that has aged into capable mid-thirties professionalism. Most people assume she was born between the invention of the Macintosh and the release of the first Game Boy. She almost certainly knows how to French braid hair under pressure.