Trace vs Tracye
American parents have registered 14,112 Traces since 1880, against 1,086 Tracyes. Trace is still ahead, with 340 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Trace Tracye
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 71 years in which either name was published, Trace for 57 years and Tracye for 14 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
Side by side
| Trace | Tracye | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 14,112 | 1,086 |
| Most in one year | 534 | 81 |
| Babies in 2025 | 340 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 14,000 | 980 |
| Median age today | 18 | 59 |
| Peak year | 2008 | 1965 |
| Best rank | 510th boys | 1,194th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 757th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1956 | 1955 |
| Girls / boys | 348 / 13,764 | 1,081 / 5 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Tracyes alive today are over 59; half the Traces are over 18. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Trace Utah (3.3×), Oklahoma (2.1×), Louisiana (2.1×)
- Tracye Tennessee (10.6×), Texas (6.1×), Georgia (2.4×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Trace and Tracye.