How rare is the name Trace?

11,398 people in the United States have the first name Trace, about 1 in 26,499. It ranks #2,273 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TRACE

#2,273

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,398
About
1 in 26,499
This common or more
79.2%
Who bears it

Of the 11,398 people named Trace, 82.6% reported their origin as White, 5.8% as two or more races and 5.3% as Black. 96.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Trace peaked in 2008, when 534 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19562025
Peak year
2008
Births that year
534
In 2025*
340 ▼36%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 14,112 babies have been given the name since 1956. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Trace by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,158. The largest share of babies named Trace, 51%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#6,53681
1960s#2,529527
1970s#3,593364
1980s#3,334521
1990s#1,4862,451
2000s#1,1584,529
2010s#1,4923,470
2020s#1,4812,169
Baby boom 1946–642.1%
Generation X 1965–805%
Millennials 1981–9611.3%
Generation Z 1997–1251%
2013 and later30.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Trace is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Trace has been most common in Utah (3.3×), Oklahoma (2.1×), and Louisiana (2.1×), and least common in New York (0.12×).

11,303 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Trace

#2,271 Cinthia · 11,412#2,272 Gianni · 11,406#2,274 Shayne · 11,386#2,275 Janessa · 11,381

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Trace, most common first.

#200 Tracy · 268,037#633 Tracey · 83,398#958 Traci · 46,048#1,308 Tracie · 28,005#5,413 Tracee · 3,182#12,130 Tracye · 1,036#16,187 Trayce · 701#26,142 Trice · 358

Also a last name

As a last name, Trace ranks #26,847 of 156,621, with 955 people. See Trace as a last name

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