Tracy is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Tracy is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,895 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,894 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 302,776 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Tracy. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Tracy occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Tracy is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Tracy is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 246,470 women and girls of all generations bear the name Tracy – that is one in 626. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Delaware, where one in 426 women and girls is called Tracy, while it is particularly rare in Texas, where you have to ask an average of 885 women for their name to get Tracy as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Tracy 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 girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Tracy 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 Tracy, you can simply say:
Tiger
Rocket
Apple
Cat
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tracy
Tracy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
R
A
C
Y
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
Y
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. Tracy sounds like this:
