Girl or boy · Norman French
Tracy
Say it: TRAY-see
Meaning
From a Norman baronial surname taken from places in France such as Tracy-Bocage, from a Gallo-Roman estate name. The popular gloss 'warlike' belongs to an unrelated Irish name (Treasach).
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A boys' name earlier in the 20th century, it peaked for girls in the US around 1970.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1970s
In the United States
- 312,318 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1970, about 1 in 95 girls
- 128 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tracey, Traci, Tracie
Famous bearers
- Tracy Chapman, US singer
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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