Tracee

Where Tracee comes from

Tracee 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. 1951
    First appearance
    #5,414 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Tracee Talavera born
    gymnast
  3. 1972
    Tracee Ellis Ross born
    American actress
  4. 1973
    Peak, #536
    312 babies named Tracee — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #912.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Tracee Ellis Ross · American actress, born 1972
  • Tracee Talavera · gymnast, born 1966
  • Tracee Chimo · American actress, born 1979
  • Tracee Carrasco · American TV news reporter for Fox Business, born 1981

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.