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Traci vs Trayvon

American parents have registered 52,406 Tracis since 1880, against 3,435 Trayvons. But in 2025 it was Trayvon that was commoner, 33 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Traci Trayvon

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 52 years and Trayvon for 28 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Traci Trayvon
Total US births 52,4063,435
Most in one year 3,871197
Babies in 2025 under 533
Estimated living today 49,0003,400
Median age today 5322
Peak year 19701995
Best rank 100th girls766th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,450th
First recorded 19451976
Girls / boys 52,173 / 2330 / 3,435

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 Trayvons are over 22. That is 31 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 Trayvon.