Tracey — #7622 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tracey

The Social Security Administration has registered 86,505 babies named Tracey between 1923 and 2024, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tracey currently holds the #7622 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 6,230 babies received it in a single year. Tracey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 8,682 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tracey performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 40,286 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Tracey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 8,191 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Tracey in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tracey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 86,505 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.