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Help[Opinions] Stacy
What are your opinions on the name Stacy?
It came to my mind because a few days ago, I found a kre8tiv variant of Stacy: Stasi. My first thought was why would you call your child the same thing as East Germany's secret police? I assume it is because most people in English speaking places don't know what the Stasi was. (And to note- assuming Stasi is pronounced the same as Stacy it's a very different pronounciation: the organization is said as shtah-zee).
It also reminds me a lot of Stasya. No surprise they're cognates. I like Stasya, some people call me Stasya and I don't mind it.
I personally like Stacy, though it isn't one of my favourites. Where I live we would spell it Steysi, which I like, but I think it probably looks weird in an English speaking country.
It came to my mind because a few days ago, I found a kre8tiv variant of Stacy: Stasi. My first thought was why would you call your child the same thing as East Germany's secret police? I assume it is because most people in English speaking places don't know what the Stasi was. (And to note- assuming Stasi is pronounced the same as Stacy it's a very different pronounciation: the organization is said as shtah-zee).
It also reminds me a lot of Stasya. No surprise they're cognates. I like Stasya, some people call me Stasya and I don't mind it.
I personally like Stacy, though it isn't one of my favourites. Where I live we would spell it Steysi, which I like, but I think it probably looks weird in an English speaking country.
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It can stay in the 1970s.
Is Stacy a middle aged woman name in the Anglosphere?
I'd say 50 to 60 year olds
Given that the Stasi and East Germany have not been a thing for 35 years and counting, it's no surprise someone today wouldn't know what Stasi meant, maybe not even in a German-speaking country. And if Stacy is a variation/shortening of Anastasia, Stasi actually sort of makes sense, though it has never caught on in the US even during the period when Stacy and all its variations were popular, the seventies, mainly.
It's also a not-rare last name.
I think Stacy is cute, though a bit flaky and giggly. I like Tracy better. I do have a cousin who I think is around seven now and her name is Stacy. Forget which spelling but I think Stacy is the one.
It's also a not-rare last name.
I think Stacy is cute, though a bit flaky and giggly. I like Tracy better. I do have a cousin who I think is around seven now and her name is Stacy. Forget which spelling but I think Stacy is the one.
I'm pretty sure the Germans are still very aware of their separated time.
We visited my son in Leipzig in 2023 for a very short time; unfortunately we couldn't fit in a visit to a DDR restaurant near his home, which specialises in the kind of food everyone ate, back in the day: stew, mostly, with more veg than meat, and bread puddings. He says the food there is excellent; don't know what that says about the way I brought him up.
It's ok
That may be the most common pronunciation but it's not set in stone. It's like with Felicia, some say '-sha' and some say '-see-a'.
Personally I pronounce it like stah-syah
Personally I pronounce it like stah-syah