girls:
52.2k births since 1945
#564 (90th percentile)
boys:
233 births since 1961
#4353 (5th percentile)
overall:
52.4k births since 1945
#1051 (86th percentile)
The name Traci is the #1,051 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52,396 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 86.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #564 (90.1% percentile) for all time with 52,163 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,353 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 233 births since 1961.
Traci first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1961 for boys). Birth data for Traci is available in 78 out of the 79 years between 1945 and 2023 (78 years for girls and 29 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Traci has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Traci reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 87.2% percentile (ranked #100) with 2,104 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 2,104 births per million (ranked 87.2% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Traci ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Traci reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #656) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Traci".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Traci", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 13 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Tracy" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Tracy..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Traci. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Traci is pronounced as TRAY-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TRA-see, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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