Tracey

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tracey is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 56th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (i) Person from Tracy-Bocage or Tracy-sur-Mer, Normandy, 'Thracius's settlement'.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 360◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 400
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 426

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈230K ●

across 7 countries

#366 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
572 ●

6.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.5K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

TracyLatin · English●3.9M records
טרייסיHebrew · Hebrew●789 records
เทรซThai · Thai●3 records
트레이시Hangul · Korean●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tracy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 19 more and Traci in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

(i) Person from Tracy-Bocage or Tracy-sur-Mer, Normandy, 'Thracius's settlement'. (ii) Different form of Treacy.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tracey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#56574,739525K rec.—4Tracy256
AU Australia#71289,706214K rec.—89Tracey246
US United States#85224,2155.3M rec.1 in 1.5K224KTracy572
CA Canada#83143,708146K rec.—3Tracy228
IT Italy#26432,87335K rec.—5Tracy77
NZ New Zealand#2820,11918K rec.—13Tracy126
DE Germany#78815,08115K rec.——Tracy130
PH Philippines—13,86416K rec.——Tracy101
RU Russia—13,78915K rec.——Tracy38
SG Singapore#4811,02114K rec.——Tracy94
EG Egypt#46510,85711K rec.——Tracy27
ZA South Africa#5766,43115K rec.——Tracey134

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.6M85%
  • 95K5%
  • Spanish46K2%
  • French13K1%
  • German13K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,631,64585%
94,5145%
Spanish46,2402%
French12,8311%
German12,5891%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tracey is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name8.1K records spelled Tracey50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Tracy, Traci, Tracie, Trace, Treacy

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tracey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from Traci/Tracy; first attested Henry Traci 1139 Templars (O).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, A surname from Old French, a spelling variant of Tracy.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K8K1920194019601980200020206.2K · 1970

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Tracey in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19156
19165
19198
19205
19216
19237
19248
19276
19286
19335
19349
19355
19376
19386
19396
19406
194110
194219
194319
194416
194522
194622
194728
194858
194952
195086
195193
1952129
1953189
1954330
1955443
1956518
1957984
1958977
19591,410
19601,960
19612,801
19623,643
19633,700
19643,743
19654,260
19665,127
19674,498
19684,931
19695,624
19706,230
19714,789
19723,407
19732,978
19742,758
19752,378
19761,942
19771,503
19781,449
19791,312
19801,253
19811,038
1982897
1983787
1984838
1985694
1986754
1987807
1988704
1989596
1990496
1991432
1992385
1993339
1994226
1995198
1996197
1997160
1998117
1999100
2000111
200193
200294
200364
200478
200555
200650
200749
200841
200948
201034
201124
201231
201327
201439
201523
201632
201726
201815
201926
20209
202113
202214
202315
202415
202513

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

194019601980Tracey Walter, b. 1947Tracey Adams, b. 1958Tracey Jackson, b. 1958Tracey Ullman, b. 1959Tracey Emin, b. 1963Tracey Childs, b. 1963Tracey Gold, b. 1969Brandi Love, b. 1973Gwendoline Christie, b. 1978

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 66 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Tracey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202077K#633
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108.2K#4,359
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008K#4,065
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.9K#4,343
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.3K#633
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025222#377
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—120#6,062
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—119#13,769
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)198389#85
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—72#2,648
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—61#11,979
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—56#11,162

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 632 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tracey?
We estimate roughly 230 thousand people bear Tracey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Tracey have the most bearers?
Tracey is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled tracy.
How common is Tracey compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Tracey is the 56th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Tracey a male or female name?
Tracey is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Tracey mean?
Recorded meaning: (i) Person from Tracy-Bocage or Tracy-sur-Mer, Normandy, 'Thracius's settlement'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tracey” — the 56th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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