Tracey
About 95,203 American babies have been named Tracey since 1915, most of them around 1970. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 86,000 Traceys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tracey boys named Tracey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 95,203
- Estimated living today
- 86,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 55th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 86,515 / 8,688
How old the living Traceys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 95,203 babies given the name since 1915, about 86,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 650 of them are children and 6,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Traceys
- Tracey Ullman (born 1959)British-American actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer and director
- Tracey Emin (born 1963)English sculptor, painter, and installation artist
- Tracey Adams (born 1958)American pornographic film actress
- Tracey Gold (born 1969)American actress
- Tracey Walter (born 1947)American actor
- Tracey Thorn (born 1962)British singer
- Tracey E. Bregman (born 1963)American actress
- Tracey Rose (born 1974)South African artist
People named Tracey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tracey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tracey is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.0×), New Jersey (1.7×), Maryland (1.7×), Delaware (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Tracey peaked:
Tracey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Tracey | 6,914 | 7th |
| Ireland girls | Tracey | 2,906 | 61st |
| Scotland girls | Tracey | 2,372 | 29th |
| England and Wales girls | Tracey | 235 | 783rd |
| France girls | Tracey | 120 | 939th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Tracey | 7 | 314th |
| Belgium girls | Tracey | 5 | 1,192nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tracey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Tracey | 8 | 11 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Tracey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.