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Traci vs Trane

American parents have registered 52,406 Tracis since 1880, against 54 Tranes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Traci against Trane, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Traci Trane

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

Traci has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Traci had 141 and Trane had 14.

Side by side

  Traci Trane
Total US births 52,40654
Most in one year 3,87124
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 49,00050
Median age today 5333
Peak year 19701991
Best rank 100th girls4,208th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19451991
Girls / boys 52,173 / 23354 / 0

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 Tranes are over 33. That is 20 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: Traci and Trane.