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Traci vs Trayton

American parents have registered 52,406 Tracis since 1880, against 873 Traytons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Traci Trayton

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 79 years in which either name was published, Traci for 67 years and Trayton for 12 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Traci Trayton
Total US births 52,406873
Most in one year 3,87156
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 49,000860
Median age today 5319
Peak year 19702008
Best rank 100th girls2,327th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19451991
Girls / boys 52,173 / 2330 / 873

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 Traytons are over 19. That is 34 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: Traci and Trayton.