Tracy — #2430 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tracy

The Social Security Administration has registered 251,303 babies named Tracy between 1884 and 2024, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tracy currently holds the #2430 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 18,465 babies received it in a single year. Tracy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 61,471 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tracy performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 103,777 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Tracy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23,764 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Tracy in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tracy 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 251,303 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.