Tracy

given name · English · Latin script

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

Tracy 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

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tracey in AU Australia, ZA South Africa, IE Ireland and 1 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 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Tracy 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●

  • English3.9M84%
  • 142K3%
  • Spanish131K3%
  • French57K1%
  • German33K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,879,17484%
141,7863%
Spanish130,6683%
French57,1161%
German32,9761%

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◐

Tracy is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name206K records spelled Tracy6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Colombia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Trãçý, Tŕácy

  • French given name63K records spelled Tracy6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Träcy, Trãcÿ, Traçy, Tràcy

  • Polish given name21K records spelled Tracy50 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Tracey, Traci, Tracie, Trace, Treacy

  • Indonesian given name9.6K records spelled Tracy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Tracy

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●

Tracy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Form of Teresa, sometimes used in Ireland; influenced by the surname Tracey.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, A surname from Old French.

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

  • Guerrera

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In French, a hamlet in Vire, Calvados department, France

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

  • In Croatian, američki filmski glumac izvanredno širokih interpretatorskih mogućnosti (od dramskih i karakternih uloga do komičnih likova, skitnica, pustolova, uglednih građana, državnika); često u duetu s Katherine Hepburn, svojom životnom družicom

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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●

05K10K15K20K19001950200018K · 1970

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Tracy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18806
18829
18836
188411
188512
188614
188711
188810
188915
189016
189114
189215
189315
189412
189511
189614
189710
189814
189912
190013
190111
19028
190312
19047
19058
190616
190713
190820
190911
191015
191117
191234
191344
191443
191549
191672
191783
191875
191965
192058
192165
192271
192363
192463
192570
192678
192780
192857
192955
193061
193165
193280
193364
1934101
193584
193694
193787
1938100
1939110
1940129
1941136
1942142
1943148
1944138
1945150
1946157
1947184
1948199
1949247
1950225
1951290
1952331
1953327
1954611
1955936
19561,386
19571,966
19582,109
19593,370
19605,768
19616,988
19628,310
19639,073
196410,161
196511,174
196612,504
196711,951
196812,743
196915,108
197018,464
197114,330
197211,436
19739,913
19749,286
19758,509
19766,822
19775,756
19785,631
19795,389
19804,969
19813,869
19823,283
19833,158
19843,051
19852,652
19862,424
19871,990
19881,631
19891,465
19901,266
1991995
19921,001
1993737
1994635
1995557
1996457
1997375
1998346
1999314
2000330
2001297
2002283
2003303
2004254
2005222
2006195
2007222
2008184
2009158
2010127
2011106
2012120
2013122
2014129
201583
201693
201789
201879
201973
202077
202168
202277
202375
202474
202586

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1950196019701980Jill Biden, b. 1951Tracy Pollan, b. 1960Woody Harrelson, b. 1961Tracy Austin, b. 1962Tracy Nelson, b. 1963Tracy Chapman, b. 1964Tracy Reiner, b. 1964Tracy Letts, b. 1965Tracy Morgan, b. 1968Tracy McGrady, b. 1979

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 87 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Tracy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020224K#200
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202044K#200
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201030K#1,180
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200029K#1,093
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202028K#1,227
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.1K#2,353
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—895#594
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025473#201
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022299—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—295#19,102
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—290#20,195
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—254#7,502

Reference works 7

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 937 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tracy?
We estimate roughly 230 thousand people bear Tracy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Tracy have the most bearers?
Tracy is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled tracy.
How common is Tracy compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Tracy is the 56th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Tracy a male or female name?
Tracy 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 Tracy 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, “Tracy” — the 56th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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