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Tracy vs Traevon

American parents have registered 312,894 Tracys since 1880, against 786 Traevons. Tracy is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tracy against Traevon, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tracy Traevon

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

Tracy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Tracy had 177 and Traevon had 34.

Side by side

  Tracy Traevon
Total US births 312,894786
Most in one year 20,24049
Babies in 2025 1149
Estimated living today 279,000770
Median age today 5520
Peak year 19702007
Best rank 10th girls2,533rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,153rd8,243rd
First recorded 18801988
Girls / boys 251,393 / 61,5010 / 786

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 Tracys alive today are over 55; half the Traevons are over 20. That is 35 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: Tracy and Traevon.