Trace

Where Trace comes from

Trace hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #1,945 among boys, 17 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1962
    Trace Adkins born
    American country music singer and actor
  3. 1989
    Trace Cyrus born
    American musician
  4. 1998
    Peak, #437
    524 babies named Trace — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Trace Cyrus · American musician, born 1989
  • Trace Adkins · American country music singer and actor, born 1962
  • Trace Coquillette · American baseball player, born 1974
  • Trace Gallagher · American journalist and television news anchor for Fox News Channel, born 1961

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.