Humanverse

Tracy vs Travanti

American parents have registered 312,894 Tracys since 1880, against 81 Travantis. Tracy is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tracy against Travanti, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tracy Travanti

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

Tracy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Tracy had 1,835 and Travanti had 9.

Side by side

  Tracy Travanti
Total US births 312,89481
Most in one year 20,24015
Babies in 2025 114under 5
Estimated living today 279,00080
Median age today 5540
Peak year 19701982
Best rank 10th girls2,972nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,153rdunranked
First recorded 18801982
Girls / boys 251,393 / 61,5010 / 81

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 Tracys alive today are over 55; half the Travantis are over 40. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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