Tracey
Tracey is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,312 among girls’ names and #11,855 among boys’, #10,939 among all names counting both); 95,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 85,900 Americans named Tracey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 51 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tracey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tracey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tracey is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of popular British usage, variant of Tracy.”
/ˈtɹeɪsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tracey?
#8,312 among girls’ names, 2025
Tracey fell from #5,814 in 2015 to #8,312 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 8.1 per million.
6,599 babies in 1970, the peak
Tracey peaked in 1970, when 6,599 babies were given it (6,230 girls, #55 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are under 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,312 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,564 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,598 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,995 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,418 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,011 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,149 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,731 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,177 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,523 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,814 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,915 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,134 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,698 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,711 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,387 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,455 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,931 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,423 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,311 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,961 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,260 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,551 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,894 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,881 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,599 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,664 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,467 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 160 | #1,160 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 197 | #970 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 198 | #949 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 226 | #867 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 339 | #657 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 385 | #594 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 432 | #545 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 496 | #491 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 596 | #416 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 704 | #353 | 0.40 |
| 1987 | 807 | #302 | 0.46 |
| 1986 | 754 | #318 | 0.44 |
| 1985 | 694 | #339 | 0.40 |
| 1984 | 838 | #287 | 0.50 |
| 1983 | 787 | #296 | 0.47 |
| 1982 | 897 | #272 | 0.53 |
| 1981 | 1,038 | #239 | 0.62 |
| 1980 | 1,253 | #208 | 0.75 |
| 1979 | 1,312 | #202 | 0.82 |
| 1978 | 1,449 | #179 | 0.95 |
| 1977 | 1,503 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 1,942 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 1975 | 2,378 | #117 | 1.6 |
| 1974 | 2,758 | #108 | 1.9 |
| 1973 | 2,978 | #102 | 2.0 |
| 1972 | 3,407 | #88 | 2.2 |
| 1971 | 4,789 | #74 | 2.9 |
| 1970 | 6,230 | #55 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 5,624 | #65 | 3.3 |
| 1968 | 4,931 | #72 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 4,498 | #78 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 5,127 | #69 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 4,260 | #85 | 2.4 |
| 1964 | 3,743 | #111 | 2.0 |
| 1963 | 3,700 | #119 | 1.9 |
| 1962 | 3,643 | #123 | 1.9 |
| 1961 | 2,801 | #151 | 1.4 |
| 1960 | 1,960 | #190 | 1.0 |
| 1959 | 1,410 | #224 | 0.70 |
| 1958 | 977 | #286 | 0.49 |
| 1957 | 984 | #284 | 0.48 |
| 1956 | 518 | #396 | 0.26 |
| 1955 | 443 | #420 | 0.23 |
| 1954 | 330 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1953 | 189 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 129 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 93 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 86 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,018 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,070 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,040 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,534 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,206 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,301 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,658 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tracey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 95,203 Americans recorded as Tracey, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tracey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tracey, and how old are they?
85,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 95,203 Americans ever recorded as Tracey. The median Tracey alive today is 57 years old; half are between 51 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 83,398 people named Tracey (77,101 women and girls, 6,297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88,423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 75 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 54,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 384 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tracey born?
The states with the most babies named Tracey are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8,536 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 7,431 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 5,969 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5,244 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 4,970 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 4,757 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 4,381 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 4,193 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 2,874 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 2,836 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Tracey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tracey is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1915 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tracey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 498,238 babies since 1880, Tracey is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 139 babies (14%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tracey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tracey and names like it
- Compare Tracey and TracyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTracey peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tracey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Tracey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Tracey.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tracey alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.