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Tracie vs Tracye

American parents have registered 32,812 Tracies since 1880, against 1,086 Tracyes. Tracie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tracie against Tracye, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tracie Tracye

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

Tracie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Tracie had 314 and Tracye had 34.

Side by side

  Tracie Tracye
Total US births 32,8121,086
Most in one year 2,35181
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 30,000980
Median age today 5459
Peak year 19701965
Best rank 147th girls1,194th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 18991955
Girls / boys 32,594 / 2181,081 / 5

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 Tracyes alive today are over 59; half the Tracies are over 54. That is 5 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: Tracie and Tracye.