Meaning not yet researched.
Tracey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #55 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #55 in 1970; #8,314 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Tracey in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,314 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #55.
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Tracey: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #55 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 6,230 (1970).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Tracey, making it the 8,314th most common girls’ name of the year, down 746 places from #7,568 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 15 girls named Tracey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #55, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,230. For comparison, it was #5,816 in 2015 and #987 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Tracey, making it the 11,859th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,146 places from #7,713 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 11 boys named Tracey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #318, reached in 1967. That year also had the most boys given the name: 552. For comparison, it was #6,290 in 2015 and #1,875 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tracey in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 95,203 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 9.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 43,896 babies named Tracey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 178 US girls were named Tracey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tracy (312,894 babies since 1880), Traci (52,406 babies since 1880), Trace (14,112 babies since 1880) and Tracee (3,423 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Traycee are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Traci, Tracie and Tracy.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Traycee (10).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,314 | 6 | #11,859 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,568 | 11 | #7,713 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,603 | 6 | #12,112 |
| 2022 | 14 | #8,000 | 7 | #10,747 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,423 | 8 | #9,611 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,016 | 8 | #9,484 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,151 | 12 | #7,132 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,735 | 5 | #13,915 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,179 | 9 | #8,770 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,524 | 14 | #6,318 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,816 | 14 | #6,290 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,917 | 8 | #9,550 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,136 | 12 | #6,982 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,700 | 11 | #7,504 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,714 | 15 | #5,919 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,388 | 17 | #5,451 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,456 | 18 | #5,298 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,932 | 25 | #4,130 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,423 | 25 | #4,113 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,312 | 22 | #4,360 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,965 | 18 | #4,806 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,263 | 28 | #3,445 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,554 | 22 | #3,969 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,896 | 33 | #2,877 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,885 | 32 | #2,923 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,601 | 25 | #3,415 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,666 | 31 | #2,787 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,469 | 46 | #2,065 |
| 1997 | 160 | #1,162 | 43 | #2,088 |
| 1996 | 197 | #971 | 64 | #1,572 |
| 1995 | 198 | #952 | 60 | #1,575 |
| 1994 | 226 | #868 | 72 | #1,381 |
| 1993 | 339 | #657 | 82 | #1,260 |
| 1992 | 385 | #594 | 67 | #1,394 |
| 1991 | 432 | #545 | 82 | #1,235 |
| 1990 | 496 | #492 | 89 | #1,155 |
| 1989 | 596 | #416 | 81 | #1,195 |
| 1988 | 704 | #353 | 76 | #1,163 |
| 1987 | 807 | #302 | 78 | #1,094 |
| 1986 | 754 | #318 | 72 | #1,115 |
| 1985 | 694 | #339 | 60 | #1,241 |
| 1984 | 838 | #287 | 66 | #1,122 |
| 1983 | 787 | #296 | 36 | #1,648 |
| 1982 | 897 | #272 | 46 | #1,410 |
| 1981 | 1,038 | #239 | 70 | #1,094 |
| 1980 | 1,253 | #208 | 58 | #1,213 |
| 1979 | 1,312 | #202 | 105 | #850 |
| 1978 | 1,449 | #179 | 106 | #835 |
| 1977 | 1,503 | #180 | 142 | #716 |
| 1976 | 1,942 | #140 | 152 | #665 |
| 1975 | 2,378 | #117 | 223 | #539 |
| 1974 | 2,758 | #108 | 299 | #462 |
| 1973 | 2,978 | #102 | 421 | #374 |
| 1972 | 3,407 | #88 | 466 | #361 |
| 1971 | 4,789 | #74 | 379 | #413 |
| 1970 | 6,230 | #55 | 369 | #426 |
| 1969 | 5,624 | #65 | 395 | #401 |
| 1968 | 4,931 | #72 | 451 | #365 |
| 1967 | 4,498 | #78 | 552 | #318 |
| 1966 | 5,127 | #69 | 471 | #345 |
| 1965 | 4,260 | #85 | 353 | #417 |
| 1964 | 3,743 | #111 | 342 | #432 |
| 1963 | 3,700 | #119 | 317 | #447 |
| 1962 | 3,643 | #123 | 306 | #457 |
| 1961 | 2,801 | #151 | 237 | #517 |
| 1960 | 1,960 | #190 | 185 | #576 |
| 1959 | 1,410 | #224 | 122 | #699 |
| 1958 | 977 | #286 | 90 | #789 |
| 1957 | 984 | #284 | 86 | #816 |
| 1956 | 518 | #397 | 68 | #909 |
| 1955 | 443 | #421 | 29 | #1,454 |
| 1954 | 330 | #486 | 34 | #1,309 |
| 1953 | 189 | #657 | 29 | #1,425 |
| 1952 | 129 | #799 | 19 | #1,800 |
| 1951 | 93 | #968 | 23 | #1,596 |
| 1950 | 86 | #987 | 17 | #1,875 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,277 | 24 | #1,540 |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,194 | 12 | #2,316 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,857 | 16 | #1,985 |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,019 | 15 | #1,945 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,822 | 10 | #2,384 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,283 | 8 | #2,849 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,071 | 11 | #2,397 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,041 | 10 | #2,513 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,536 | 10 | #2,479 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,436 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,303 | 6 | #3,508 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,867 | 6 | #3,495 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,106 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,729 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,109 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #4,110 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,177 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,478 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,659 | 7 | #3,788 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,283 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,925 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,367 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,469 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,791 |
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).