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Tracie vs Trayson

American parents have registered 32,812 Tracies since 1880, against 502 Traysons. But in 2025 it was Trayson that was commoner, 15 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tracie Trayson

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 89 years in which either name was published, Tracie for 73 years and Trayson for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tracie Trayson
Total US births 32,812502
Most in one year 2,35130
Babies in 2025 615
Estimated living today 30,000500
Median age today 5412
Peak year 19702010
Best rank 147th girls3,531st boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th5,861st
First recorded 18991996
Girls / boys 32,594 / 2180 / 502

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 Traysons are over 12. That is 42 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: Tracie and Trayson.