Stacey

alternative Stacy · alternative Staci · alternative Stacie

1. An English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.
2. A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred back from the surname.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek popular in the 1970s, from the surname, sometimes also explained as a short form of Anastasia.

   They call me Hel, they call me Stacey / They call me "her", they call me Jane

   2007, Jules De Martino, Katie White, “That's Not My Name”, performed by The Ting Tings

   1 more example

   It was just a brief kiss, one that even Bernadine would have thought entirely appropriate between an uncle and niece had she happened to see it. But its briefness wasn’t the whole story. In that scant second that his lips claimed hers, Stacey felt herself suffused with warmth as a most unniecely heat flooded her body.

   1990, Candace Schuler, Wildcat, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 194