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Tracy

Unisex name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~283,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,153 among girls
Births in 2025
114 312,894 since 1880
Typical age
55 years, median

Tracy popularity over time

Tracy rank by birth year, 1884–2025Tracy ranked #851 in 1884 and #2,153 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #10, in 1970.#10#100#1,000#2,153best #10 in 197018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1884–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Tracy was used most in 1970, when 20,240 babies were given the name. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Tracy has spent 25 years inside the national top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #2,153, with 114 births that year. Compared with 2015, births are down 26%. Year on year the rank improved by 281.

Babies named Tracy per yearPeaks at 20,240 births in 1970.20,240 in 1970018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Tracy?

Roughly 283,700 Tracys are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 312,894 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 233,300 women and 50,400 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Tracy?

Half of living Tracys are older than 55, half younger. The 1960s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Tracy a late 20th-century name.

Your Tracy

Ages of living people named TracyHalf of living Tracys are older than 55 and half younger.median 55020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Tracy is most common

Tracy is 1.6× as common in Florida as it is nationally.

Where Tracy is used more than average1 states use the name Tracy more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: 1.6× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Tracy is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Florida 103 1.6×

Is Tracy a boy's or a girl's name?

80% girls20% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Recent births under the name Tracy divide almost evenly between girls and boys. Across the whole record, 80.3% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Tracy in England and Wales

ONS recorded 3 births named Tracy in 2025, ranking it #5,927. That is 70% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Tracy comes from

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 summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Tracy

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Tracy Chapman American singer-songwriter 1964 65
Tracy Austin US tennis player 1962 49
Tracy McGrady American basketball player 1979 45
Tracy Caldwell Dyson American chemist and NASA astronaut 1969 40
Tracy Morgan American actor and comedian 1968 37
Tracy Chevalier American writer 1962 33
Tracy Letts American actor and screenwriter 1965 30
Tracy Pollan American actress 1960 28
Photo credits (5)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 4,821 in 1959 to 8,349 in 1960 — 1.7 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Tracy

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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