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Tracie vs Travis

American parents have registered 310,687 Travises since 1880, against 32,812 Tracies. Travis is still ahead, with 732 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tracie against Travis, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tracie Travis

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 144 years in which either name was published, Travis for 139 years and Tracie for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tracie Travis
Total US births 32,812310,687
Most in one year 2,35111,575
Babies in 2025 6732
Estimated living today 30,000283,000
Median age today 5438
Peak year 19701989
Best rank 147th girls41st boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th434th
First recorded 18991880
Girls / boys 32,594 / 2182,116 / 308,571

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 Tracies alive today are over 54; half the Travises are over 38. That is 16 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tracie Travis
England and Wales 35,261
France 45655
Scotland 33445
Ireland 18189

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tracie and Travis.