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Tracie vs Trayton

American parents have registered 32,812 Tracies since 1880, against 873 Traytons. Tracie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tracie 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 89 years in which either name was published, Tracie for 72 years and Trayton for 17 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Tracie Trayton
Total US births 32,812873
Most in one year 2,35156
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 30,000860
Median age today 5419
Peak year 19702008
Best rank 147th girls2,327th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 18991991
Girls / boys 32,594 / 2180 / 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 Tracies alive today are over 54; half the Traytons are over 19. That is 35 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 Trayton.