Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Tracy was most popular in 1970, when 20,240 American babies were given the name — ranking #32 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,232, with 114 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 312,894 people named Tracy.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Tracy is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 145 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 312,894 American births named Tracy between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 281,929 are estimated to be alive today.
114 American babies were named Tracy in 2025, ranking #3,232 that year.
Tracy is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 113 births a year, against 177 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -36% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Tracy is mostly a girl’s name — 80.3% of the 312,894 Americans given it were girls and 19.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 1954 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 65% girls and 35% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 281,929 Americans named Tracy are alive today — 90% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 56 years old, and half are between 50 and 61. That is a narrow band: Tracy arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org