Trae
Trae was given to 34 boys in 2025, #3,441 among boys’ names; 4,179 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,070 Americans named Trae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Trae?
#3,441 among boys’ names, 2025
Trae fell from #2,383 in 2015 to #3,441 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.7 to 19.9 per million.
211 babies in 1993, the peak
Trae peaked in 1993, when 211 babies were given it (201 boys, #734 among boys’ names). The 34 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #3,441 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,500 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,888 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,266 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,152 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,363 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,932 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,574 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,632 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,053 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #2,383 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,457 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,779 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 86 | #1,754 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,475 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 120 | #1,398 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,265 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 139 | #1,260 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,403 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,237 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,332 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,371 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,379 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,251 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 121 | #1,148 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,037 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 154 | #945 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,028 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 130 | #994 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,017 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 155 | #874 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 143 | #913 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 201 | #734 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 164 | #822 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 106 | #1,047 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,272 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,851 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 38 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,503 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,859 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,470 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,110 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,889 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,185 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,743 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #4,030 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,604 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #4,005 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Trae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,179 Americans recorded as Trae, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 34 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Trae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trae, and how old are they?
4,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,179 Americans ever recorded as Trae. The median Trae alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,494 people named Trae (126 women and girls, 3,368 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 163 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 719 |
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 Trae born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,918 | 1.3× |
Where Trae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Trae is most over-represented in Texas: since 1964 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Trae 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,424 babies since 1880, Trae is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 40 babies (85%), again the 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 Trae
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 Trae and names like it
- Compare Trae and TrayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTrae peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trae since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Trae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Trae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.