Trace is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Trace isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Trace ranks 692. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Trace. In the entire USA, approximately 10,284 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Trace. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Trace is a short form of Tracy, an English first name and originally a French place name meaning ‘domain belonging to Thracius’. Thracius is a Latin name and probably refers to a Roman soldier, as they were also given land as a gift with their pension.
Trace began to be used... as a given name in the 1950s.
Trace is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Trace - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 406 in 1998. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Trace really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Trace was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
373 babies were named Trace in 2022 - that's 1 in 432,777 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Trace ranked 659 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Trace is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Trace and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Trace, you can simply say:
Tiger
Rocket
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Trace
Trace
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
R
A
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
R
A
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Trace sounds like this:
