Tracy
The girl's name Tracy has been in the national records since 1880, with 312,894 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,153rd. About 279,000 Tracys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Tracy
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Tracy crossed from boys to girls in 1954, and has stayed there for 72 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 92% girls, and in 2025 it was 75%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 119 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 312,894
- Estimated living today
- 279,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 10th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,153rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 251,393 / 61,501
How old the living Tracys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 312,894 babies given the name since 1880, about 279,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 22,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
A Norman baronial surname from places in France, derived from the Gallo-Roman given name Thracius which referred to Thrace + the Celtic suffix *-āko (place, property). As a female given name, it is also known as a diminutive of Theresa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tracys
- Tracy Chapman (born 1964)American singer-songwriter
- Tracy Austin (born 1962)US tennis player
- Tracy McGrady (born 1979)American basketball player
- Tracy Caldwell Dyson (born 1969)American chemist and NASA astronaut
- Tracy Morgan (born 1968)American actor and comedian
- Tracy Chevalier (born 1962)American writer
- Tracy Letts (born 1965)American actor and screenwriter
- Tracy Pollan (born 1960)American actress
People named Tracy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tracy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tracy is most concentrated in Wyoming (1.3×), the District of Columbia (1.3×), Wisconsin (1.3×), Ohio (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Tracy peaked:
Tracy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Tracy | 4,125 | 170th |
| New Zealand girls | Tracy | 3,999 | 12th |
| Scotland girls | Tracy | 3,823 | 13th |
| Ireland girls | Tracy | 2,539 | 54th |
| England and Wales girls | Tracy | 317 | 686th |
| Belgium girls | Tracy | 244 | 320th |
| France boys | Tracy | 35 | 2,396th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tracy: rank by region
In 2015, Tracy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Tracy | 499 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Tracy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Tracy | 21 | 24 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Tracy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 254 women called Tracy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Tracy | 24 | 0.041 | 1,990 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Tracy | 28 | 0.027 | 1,986 |
| Málaga | Tracy | 25 | 0.027 | 1,738 |
| Almería | Tracy | 10 | 0.027 | 1,935 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Tracy | 14 | 0.025 | 2,578 |
| Balears, Illes | Tracy | 15 | 0.024 | 2,167 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Tracy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.