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Tracey vs Traveon

American parents have registered 95,203 Traceys since 1880, against 1,070 Traveons. Tracey is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tracey Traveon

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

Tracey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Tracey had 66 and Traveon had 49.

Side by side

  Tracey Traveon
Total US births 95,2031,070
Most in one year 6,59962
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 86,0001,000
Median age today 5623
Peak year 19702003
Best rank 55th girls1,885th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 19151976
Girls / boys 86,515 / 8,6880 / 1,070

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 Traveons are over 23. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Tracey and Traveon.