Tracen vs Traci
American parents have registered 52,406 Tracis since 1880, against 544 Tracens. But in 2025 it was Tracen that was commoner, 23 babies to fewer than five.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tracen Traci
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 80 years in which either name was published, Traci for 65 years and Tracen for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Tracen | Traci | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 544 | 52,406 |
| Most in one year | 40 | 3,871 |
| Babies in 2025 | 23 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 540 | 49,000 |
| Median age today | 13 | 53 |
| Peak year | 2011 | 1970 |
| Best rank | 2,904th boys | 100th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,396th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1997 | 1945 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 544 | 52,173 / 233 |
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 Tracis alive today are over 53; half the Tracens are over 13. That is 40 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 Traci.