Tracy
28,161 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tracy in the 2020 census, making it the 1,227th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 28,161
- Rank
- 1,227th
- How common
- 1 in 10,600
- Per 100,000
- 9.4
Where the name comes from
Origin Old French
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Tracy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Tracy
- Spencer Tracy (1900–1967)American actor
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836)French philosopher
- Brian Tracy (born 1944)American motivational speaker and writer
- Keegan Connor Tracy (born 1971)Canadian actress
- Lee Tracy (1898–1968)American actor
- Paul Tracy (born 1968)Canadian racecar driver
- Lil Tracy (born 1995)American rapper, singer, and songwriter
- David Tracy (1939–2025)American theologian
People named Tracy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Tracy
Also a first name
Tracy has been given to 312,894 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1970. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.