Tracey
Girl · TRAY-see · English
Tracey is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Tracey mean?
English: English surname from Tracy in Normandy; also a pet form of Theresa
Katharine Hepburn's Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940) helped make Tracy a girls' name.
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Is Tracey a girl's or a boy's name?
Tracey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 13 girls and 6 boys in the US.
How popular is Tracey in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Tracey, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 1996, with 32 girls.
2025 had more girls named Tracey than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Tracey in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2007. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
In the England and Wales top 100 for girls, which the ONS has published every ten years since 1904: 1964 (#6), 1974 (#26) and 1984 (#75).
Tracey in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 2009 | 10 | #2,478 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 18 | #1,481 |
| 2005 | 18 | #1,382 |
| 2004 | 24 | #1,081 |
| 2003 | 9 | #2,109 |
| 2002 | 13 | #1,553 |
| 2001 | 16 | #1,325 |
| 2000 | 11 | #1,689 |
| 1999 | 11 | #1,653 |
| 1998 | 21 | #1,080 |
| 1997 | 22 | #1,022 |
| 1996 | 32 | #778 |
How popular is Tracey in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Tracey, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1970, with 6,230 girls. It first appears in the records in 1923. 6 boys were also named Tracey in 2025 (10,690th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Tracey in the US since 1880 were born between 1965 and 1974, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 105 girls in the US were given Tracey or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,637, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.
In 2019, 68% of the babies named Tracey in the US were girls.
Tracey in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,039 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,599 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,305 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,408 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,858 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,376 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,263 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,931 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,237 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,519 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,885 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,868 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,586 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,652 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,456 |
| 1997 | 160 | #1,153 |
| 1996 | 197 | #969 |
| 1995 | 198 | #946 |
| 1994 | 226 | #865 |
| 1993 | 339 | #657 |
| 1992 | 385 | #593 |
| 1991 | 432 | #542 |
| 1990 | 496 | #490 |
| 1989 | 596 | #415 |
| 1988 | 704 | #353 |
| 1987 | 807 | #301 |
| 1986 | 754 | #318 |
| 1985 | 694 | #339 |
| 1984 | 838 | #287 |
| 1983 | 787 | #296 |
| 1982 | 897 | #272 |
| 1981 | 1,038 | #239 |
| 1980 | 1,253 | #208 |
| 1979 | 1,312 | #202 |
| 1978 | 1,449 | #179 |
| 1977 | 1,503 | #180 |
| 1976 | 1,942 | #140 |
| 1975 | 2,378 | #117 |
| 1974 | 2,758 | #108 |
| 1973 | 2,978 | #102 |
| 1972 | 3,407 | #88 |
| 1971 | 4,789 | #74 |
| 1970 | 6,230 | #55 |
| 1969 | 5,624 | #65 |
| 1968 | 4,931 | #72 |
| 1967 | 4,498 | #78 |
| 1966 | 5,127 | #69 |
| 1965 | 4,260 | #85 |
| 1964 | 3,743 | #111 |
| 1963 | 3,700 | #118 |
| 1962 | 3,643 | #123 |
| 1961 | 2,801 | #151 |
| 1960 | 1,960 | #190 |
| 1959 | 1,410 | #224 |
| 1958 | 977 | #286 |
| 1957 | 984 | #284 |
| 1956 | 518 | #395 |
| 1955 | 443 | #420 |
| 1954 | 330 | #484 |
| 1953 | 189 | #651 |
| 1952 | 129 | #793 |
| 1951 | 93 | #960 |
| 1950 | 86 | #977 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,264 |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,184 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,821 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,969 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,794 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,198 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,993 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,980 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,250 |
| 1940 | 0 | – |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,780 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,845 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 1936 | 0 | – |
| 1935 | 0 | – |
| 1934 | 0 | – |
| 1933 | 0 | – |
| 1932 | 0 | – |
| 1931 | 0 | – |
| 1930 | 0 | – |
| 1929 | 0 | – |
| 1928 | 0 | – |
| 1927 | 0 | – |
| 1926 | 0 | – |
| 1925 | 0 | – |
| 1924 | 0 | – |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,966 |
Nicknames for Tracey
- Trace 340 boys in the US in 2025
Names like Tracey
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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