Meaning not yet researched.
Trace: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 340 in 2025. Its best rank was #439 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #439 in 1998; #758 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Trace in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#758 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #439.
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Trace: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 340 boys in 2025. Peak: #439 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 534 (2008).
In 2025, 340 US boys were named Trace, making it the 758th most common boys’ name of the year, down 55 places from #703 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 383 boys named Trace in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #439, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 534, in 2008. For comparison, it was #801 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Trace in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 17 babies. In all, 14,112 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,529 babies named Trace.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,338 US boys were named Trace; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 404. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,024 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Trace ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #294 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tracey (95,203 babies since 1880), Tracie (32,812 babies since 1880) and Tracee (3,423 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Trayce, Traice and Track are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Trayce (817), Traice (18), Track (8), Trayc (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Trace in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #294 | — |
| Louisiana | 16 | #334 | #435 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #450 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #484 | — |
| Ohio | 21 | #512 | #681 |
| Oregon | 7 | #523 | #629 |
| Alabama | 9 | #566 | #701 |
| Iowa | 6 | #566 | — |
| Colorado | 10 | #567 | #777 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #611 | #329 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #614 | #567 |
| Indiana | 11 | #619 | #574 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #628 | #1,027 |
| Maryland | 7 | #690 | #701 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #697 | #682 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #715 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #732 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #754 | #1,088 |
| Michigan | 10 | #763 | #804 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #774 | #853 |
| Virginia | 9 | #787 | — |
| Texas | 34 | #806 | #759 |
| Missouri | 6 | #860 | #609 |
| Florida | 17 | #882 | #742 |
| Washington | 6 | #986 | #1,090 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,022 | #666 |
| California | 19 | #1,116 | #1,208 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,169 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,461 | #1,515 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 340 | #758 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,487 | 383 | #703 |
| 2023 | — | — | 404 | #674 |
| 2022 | — | — | 373 | #708 |
| 2021 | — | — | 348 | #736 |
| 2020 | — | — | 316 | #763 |
| 2019 | — | — | 302 | #776 |
| 2018 | — | — | 319 | #745 |
| 2017 | — | — | 266 | #835 |
| 2016 | — | — | 287 | #805 |
| 2015 | — | — | 291 | #801 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,003 | 308 | #763 |
| 2013 | — | — | 382 | #644 |
| 2012 | — | — | 379 | #635 |
| 2011 | — | — | 437 | #573 |
| 2010 | — | — | 494 | #524 |
| 2009 | — | — | 505 | #531 |
| 2008 | — | — | 534 | #510 |
| 2007 | — | — | 437 | #586 |
| 2006 | — | — | 470 | #537 |
| 2005 | — | — | 445 | #543 |
| 2004 | — | — | 447 | #531 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,232 | 496 | #496 |
| 2002 | — | — | 437 | #521 |
| 2001 | — | — | 369 | #564 |
| 2000 | — | — | 384 | #551 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,323 | 389 | #535 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,992 | 524 | #439 |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,005 | 421 | #496 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,109 | 202 | #749 |
| 1995 | — | — | 161 | #856 |
| 1994 | — | — | 172 | #806 |
| 1993 | — | — | 158 | #844 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,459 | 127 | #955 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,315 | 139 | #898 |
| 1990 | — | — | 116 | #979 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,280 | 96 | #1,072 |
| 1988 | — | — | 58 | #1,372 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,146 | 47 | #1,528 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,718 | 58 | #1,283 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,934 | 91 | #961 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,093 | 28 | #1,975 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,000 | 19 | #2,569 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,214 | 27 | #2,055 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,048 | 21 | #2,415 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,610 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,869 | 18 | #2,662 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,673 | 24 | #2,066 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,356 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,604 | 22 | #2,172 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,146 | 21 | #2,199 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,633 | 15 | #2,664 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,392 | 24 | #1,868 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,884 | 33 | #1,505 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,521 | 42 | #1,306 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,852 | 40 | #1,334 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,404 | 32 | #1,434 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,444 | 34 | #1,338 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,644 | 47 | #1,086 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,728 | 64 | #913 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,537 | 71 | #872 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,971 | 23 | #1,695 |
| 1963 | 12 | #4,001 | 45 | #1,163 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,913 | 34 | #1,363 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,525 | 25 | #1,632 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,657 | 28 | #1,550 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,137 | 22 | #1,758 |
| 1958 | — | — | 20 | #1,835 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #2,015 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #2,010 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).