Tracey
Feminine · “of Thracius' estate”
Tracey is given to both — 86,515 girls and 8,688 boys since 1880. See Tracey as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Tracey started as a place in Normandy, became an English surname, and then — like Shirley, Beverly and Ashley before it — crossed over into a girls' given name and stayed there.
How old is the name Tracey?
Tracey first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Tracey alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 80,000 people named Tracey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tracey most popular?
Tracey peaked in 1970, reaching #55 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 7,830 places below that high. See the whole 1970 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Thracius to Tracey
The story of Tracey
Norman families took their surnames from their estates, and the Tracy family carried theirs to England after the Conquest. Surnames of that kind became English given names in a well-documented nineteenth and twentieth-century pattern, usually starting with boys and moving to girls within a generation or two. Tracy and Tracey did exactly that: masculine use came first, the feminine overtook it in the 1950s, and the -ey spelling peaked at the end of the 1960s.
Meaning
of Thracius' estate
From the Norman place name Tracy, which comes from a Gallo-Roman personal name Thracius plus a suffix marking a landholding. Thracius itself means 'the Thracian', a man from Thrace. The name therefore describes a piece of land named after a man named after a region.
How the name formed
- Thracius
- Tracy
- Tracey
Related forms: Tracy · Traci · Tracie
Pronouncing Tracey
TRAY-see
Two syllables, stress on the first. All four spellings are said identically.
Nicknames for Tracey
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1923
- Most girls named
- 19695,624 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #55reached in 1970
- Change vs 2023
- −13.3%13 in 2025, from 15
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tracey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tracy in English — spelling variant
- Traci in English — spelling variant
- Tracie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, New York.
Traceys among us
people named Tracey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Tracey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Willie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tracey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Willie climbed just as high around 1909, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Willie's path sketches the road Tracey is walking now.
Tracey sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tracey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tracey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Norman place name behind it, which is more history than most surname-names carry.
- Clean, bright and easy to say at speed.
- It functions for either sex, and did so for a century before settling.
- Four spellings were in simultaneous use, so it will be written wrongly often.
- The name is closely dated to the 1960s and 1970s in both Britain and America.
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Feminine · #7885 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Traceys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 80,000 people named Tracey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tracey in 2025?
- Tracey ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tracey?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Tracey — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tracey with classmates?
- Tracey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tracey
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