first name
TRACY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 268,037 people named Tracy, 77.9% reported their origin as White, 12.5% as Black and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 83.7% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tracy peaked in 1970, when 20,240 babies got the name.
At least 312,894 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.
Tracy by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #54. The largest share of babies named Tracy, 61.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Tracy is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tracy has been most common in Wyoming (1.3×), District of Columbia (1.3×), and Wisconsin (1.3×), and least common in Arizona (0.66×).
304,686 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 Tracy
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tracy, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Tracy ranks #1,227 of 156,621, with 28,161 people. See Tracy as a last name
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