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Tracen vs Tracey

American parents have registered 95,203 Traceys since 1880, against 544 Tracens. But in 2025 it was Tracen that was commoner, 23 babies to 19.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tracen against Tracey, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tracen Tracey

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 101 years in which either name was published, Tracey for 98 years and Tracen for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tracen Tracey
Total US births 54495,203
Most in one year 406,599
Babies in 2025 2319
Estimated living today 54086,000
Median age today 1356
Peak year 20111970
Best rank 2,904th boys55th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th7,885th
First recorded 19971915
Girls / boys 0 / 54486,515 / 8,688

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 Traceys alive today are over 56; half the Tracens are over 13. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tracen and Tracey.