Meaning not yet researched.
Trae: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #736 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #736 in 1993; #3,442 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Trae in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,442 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #736.
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Trae: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #736 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 201 (1993).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Trae, making it the 3,442nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 942 places from #2,500 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 55 boys named Trae in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #736, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 201. For comparison, it was #2,384 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Trae in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 6 babies. In all, 4,179 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,420 babies named Trae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 535 US boys were named Trae; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tre (5,950 babies since 1880) and Tray (1,525 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Trai, Tra and Traeh 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: Trai (277), Tra (248), Traeh (105), Traye (103), Traie (7).
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 Trae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 34 | #3,442 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,500 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,889 |
| 2022 | — | — | 64 | #2,267 |
| 2021 | — | — | 67 | #2,153 |
| 2020 | — | — | 57 | #2,364 |
| 2019 | — | — | 77 | #1,932 |
| 2018 | — | — | 50 | #2,575 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,633 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,054 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,384 |
| 2014 | — | — | 52 | #2,459 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,780 |
| 2012 | — | — | 86 | #1,755 |
| 2011 | — | — | 111 | #1,475 |
| 2010 | — | — | 120 | #1,398 |
| 2009 | — | — | 140 | #1,265 |
| 2008 | — | — | 139 | #1,260 |
| 2007 | — | — | 117 | #1,403 |
| 2006 | — | — | 136 | #1,237 |
| 2005 | — | — | 114 | #1,333 |
| 2004 | — | — | 106 | #1,373 |
| 2003 | — | — | 98 | #1,380 |
| 2002 | — | — | 109 | #1,254 |
| 2001 | — | — | 121 | #1,150 |
| 2000 | — | — | 140 | #1,039 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,609 | 154 | #947 |
| 1998 | — | — | 132 | #1,031 |
| 1997 | — | — | 130 | #996 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,414 | 123 | #1,019 |
| 1995 | — | — | 155 | #877 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,711 | 143 | #916 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,682 | 201 | #736 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,243 | 164 | #824 |
| 1991 | — | — | 106 | #1,053 |
| 1990 | — | — | 76 | #1,277 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,424 | 41 | #1,856 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,704 |
| 1987 | — | — | 46 | #1,558 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,722 |
| 1985 | — | — | 38 | #1,668 |
| 1984 | — | — | 42 | #1,504 |
| 1983 | — | — | 30 | #1,860 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,589 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,472 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,111 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,890 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,563 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,215 | 13 | #3,186 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,895 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,745 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,932 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #4,032 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,596 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,675 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,984 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,676 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,699 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,940 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,605 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #4,006 |
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).