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Tracee vs Traci

American parents have registered 52,406 Tracis since 1880, against 3,423 Tracees. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tracee against Traci, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tracee Traci

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Traci has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1953, when Tracee had 12 and Traci had 19.

Side by side

  Tracee Traci
Total US births 3,42352,406
Most in one year 3123,871
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,20049,000
Median age today 5153
Peak year 19731970
Best rank 536th girls100th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19511945
Girls / boys 3,413 / 1052,173 / 233

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tracis alive today are over 53; half the Tracees are over 51. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tracee and Traci.