Tracey
Tracey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 55th, in 1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19706,230 births
- Best rank
- #55in 1970
- Since 1923
- 95,187people given the name
The story in the numbers
86,505 girls have been named Tracey in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 6,230 births — 0.36% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 6,230 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 47%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 8,682 boys have also been given it, 9.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tracey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 17 | |
| 1940s | 244 | |
| 1950s | 5,159 | |
| 1960s | 40,286 | |
| 1970s | 28,749 | |
| 1980s | 8,369 | |
| 1990s | 2,651 | |
| 2000s | 683 | |
| 2010s | 277 | |
| 2020s | 65 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Tracey was the 55th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Tracey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tonjapeak 1967
- Shellipeak 1968
- Kimberelypeak 1970
- Tammipeak 1968
- Shawnepeak 1969
- Tracypeak 1970
- Kimberleypeak 1967
- Tinapeak 1968
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.