Traci
Traci was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 52,406 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 48,400 Americans named Traci and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 47 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Traci by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Traci mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Traci is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Tracy.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Traci?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,038, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
3,871 babies in 1970, the peak
Traci peaked in 1970, when 3,871 babies were given it (3,854 girls, #100 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #11,038 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,337 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,169 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,937 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,187 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,685 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,360 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,547 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,206 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,583 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,477 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,470 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,241 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,920 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,583 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,528 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,558 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,974 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,614 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,577 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,172 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,834 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,041 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,354 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,208 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,593 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,539 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 145 | #1,237 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 141 | #1,242 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,027 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 245 | #825 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 269 | #769 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 339 | #661 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 364 | #621 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 517 | #474 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 574 | #430 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 653 | #369 | 0.37 |
| 1987 | 820 | #296 | 0.47 |
| 1986 | 868 | #283 | 0.51 |
| 1985 | 801 | #302 | 0.47 |
| 1984 | 909 | #266 | 0.54 |
| 1983 | 845 | #277 | 0.51 |
| 1982 | 921 | #268 | 0.54 |
| 1981 | 948 | #263 | 0.57 |
| 1980 | 1,131 | #227 | 0.68 |
| 1979 | 1,217 | #214 | 0.76 |
| 1978 | 1,218 | #211 | 0.80 |
| 1977 | 1,233 | #207 | 0.80 |
| 1976 | 1,421 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 1,740 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 1974 | 2,006 | #140 | 1.4 |
| 1973 | 2,259 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 1972 | 2,609 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 1971 | 3,118 | #116 | 1.9 |
| 1970 | 3,854 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 1969 | 3,129 | #112 | 1.9 |
| 1968 | 2,557 | #127 | 1.6 |
| 1967 | 2,444 | #143 | 1.5 |
| 1966 | 2,657 | #137 | 1.6 |
| 1965 | 2,081 | #168 | 1.2 |
| 1964 | 1,832 | #200 | 1.0 |
| 1963 | 1,301 | #243 | 0.67 |
| 1962 | 1,150 | #262 | 0.58 |
| 1961 | 878 | #315 | 0.43 |
| 1960 | 674 | #371 | 0.33 |
| 1959 | 387 | #497 | 0.19 |
| 1958 | 265 | #611 | 0.13 |
| 1957 | 226 | #654 | 0.11 |
| 1956 | 101 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 65 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,462 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,537 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,924 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,286 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,380 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,992 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Traci a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Traci has been given almost only to girls: 233 boys in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Traci: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Traci, and how old are they?
48,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 52,406 Americans ever recorded as Traci. The median Traci alive today is 54 years old; half are between 47 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 46,048 people named Traci (45,895 women and girls, 153 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49,477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 32,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 936 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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 Traci born?
The states with the most babies named Traci are California, Texas and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5,085 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 3,729 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 3,453 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 2,546 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,377 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 2,215 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 1,978 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 1,732 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 1,603 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 1,440 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Traci is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Traci is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1945 it was given 1.8 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 Traci 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, Traci is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 139 babies recorded by SSA was a Traci (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Traci
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 Traci and names like it
- Compare Traci and TracyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTraci peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Traci since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Traci: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Traci.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Traci alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.