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Travis vs Trayce

American parents have registered 310,687 Travises since 1880, against 817 Trayces. Travis is still ahead, with 732 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Travis Trayce

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

Travis 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 2024, when Travis had 923 and Trayce had 42.

Side by side

  Travis Trayce
Total US births 310,687817
Most in one year 11,57542
Babies in 2025 73223
Estimated living today 283,000790
Median age today 3816
Peak year 19892024
Best rank 41st boys2,958th boys
Rank in 2025 434th4,396th
First recorded 18801957
Girls / boys 2,116 / 308,571208 / 609

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 Travises alive today are over 38; half the Trayces are over 16. That is 22 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: Travis and Trayce.