girls:
343 births since 1959
#5373 (6th percentile)
boys:
13k births since 1956
#1016 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.4k births since 1956
#2269 (71st percentile)
The name Trace is the #2,269 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,378 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 70.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,016 (77.8% percentile) for all time with 13,035 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,373 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 343 births since 1959.
Trace first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1959 for girls).
The name Trace has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Trace reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #405) with 258 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 258 births per million (ranked 49.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Trace ranks #550 for boys (39.7% percentile) with 220 births per million, which is 84.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Trace reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #753) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Trace".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Trace is pronounced as trays, which has 1 syllables.
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