Trace
Trace is ranked 704th among boys in 2024 (380 births). Its best rank was 439th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- #704down 27 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3800.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2008534 births
- Best rank
- #439in 1998
- Since 1956
- 13,767people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,419 boys have been named Trace in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 534 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 348 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Trace was the 510th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Trace
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Armanpeak 2004
- Zacchaeuspeak 2003
- Cutterpeak 2003
- Hamzahpeak 2008
- Tayvonpeak 2008
- Ulisespeak 2006
- Isaipeak 2007
- Abisaipeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.