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Tracie vs Trayvond

American parents have registered 32,812 Tracies since 1880, against 79 Trayvonds. Tracie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tracie against Trayvond, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tracie Trayvond

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

Tracie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Tracie had 89 and Trayvond had 49.

Side by side

  Tracie Trayvond
Total US births 32,81279
Most in one year 2,35149
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 30,00080
Median age today 5431
Peak year 19701994
Best rank 147th girls1,773rd boys
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 18991994
Girls / boys 32,594 / 2180 / 79

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 Tracies alive today are over 54; half the Trayvonds are over 31. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tracie Trayvond
England and Wales 34

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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