Girls' name · peaked in 1970
Tracie name popularity since 1925
32,784 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Tracie (99.3% girls, 0.7% boys). Half of them were born in 1971 or earlier, so the typical Tracie is about 55 years old in 2026. Tracie peaked in 1970 as the #147 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 32,784
- Named Tracie, 1925–2025
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #14,782 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 99.3% girls
- 32,566 girls · 218 boys
- Most popular in
- Alabama
- 1.59× its national share
Peak year is the year Tracie made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Tracie births per year, 1925–2025
1970 was the biggest year for Tracie both by count and as a share of all babies.
- Fastest rise: Between 1956 and 1961, Tracie became 4.5× more common, from 1 in 12,800 baby girls to 1 in 2,860.
- Steepest fall: Between 1973 and 1978, its share of baby girls fell by 58%, from 1 in 897 to 1 in 2,150.
Shaded on the chart. Both compare Tracie's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Tracie.
Decade by decade
Babies named Tracie in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 6 | 0 | – |
| 1930s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1940s | 84 | 0 | #3,115 |
| 1950s | 1,413 | 0 | #1,041 |
| 1960s | 11,312 | 73 | #259 |
| 1970s | 13,795 | 104 | #200 |
| 1980s | 4,237 | 13 | #510 |
| 1990s | 1,198 | 28 | #1,491 |
| 2000s | 351 | 0 | #4,571 |
| 2010s | 132 | 0 | #7,980 |
| 2020–25 | 38 | 0 | #14,782 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.
Generation fingerprint
66.4% of babies named Tracie from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:
Where Tracie is most popular
The index compares Tracie's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Tracie.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 1.59× | 858 |
| Oregon | 1.51× | 432 |
| Georgia | 1.47× | 1,237 |
| Ohio | 1.47× | 2,059 |
| Michigan | 1.39× | 1,621 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Tracie and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Tracie (this page) | 32,566 | 1970 |
| Tracy | 250,929 | 1970 |
| Tracey | 86,510 | 1970 |
| Traci | 52,173 | 1970 |
| Tracee | 3,413 | 1973 |
| Tracye | 1,081 | 1965 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Tracie's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Tracie.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Tracie (1970).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data