Lacy vs Lark

Lacy

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage. 

  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage. 

  • A surname from Old French, a spelling variant of Lacey. 

Lark

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage. 

  • A surname originating as a patronymic shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence. 

  • A female given name from English from the lark bird. 

  • A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. 

  • A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks. 

How often have the words Lacy and Lark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )