Trae
Last seen for girls in 1999 at #11,385 · #3,379 for boys in 2025, 34 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 201 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,133since 1964
Trae over time
Rank among boys' names. Trae has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,379 | 34 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,476 | 55 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,848 | 44 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,243 | 64 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,134 | 67 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,347 | 57 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,917 | 77 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,546 | 50 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,597 | 48 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,993 | 39 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,355 | 55 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,429 | 52 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,763 | 82 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,742 | 86 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,468 | 111 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,390 | 120 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,257 | 140 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,251 | 139 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,400 | 117 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,229 | 136 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,323 | 114 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,367 | 106 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,372 | 98 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,244 | 109 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,143 | 121 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,038 | 140 | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #944 | 154 |
| 1998 | — | #1,023 | 132 | |
| 1997 | — | #993 | 130 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,011 | 123 |
| 1995 | — | #876 | 155 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #912 | 143 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #735 | 201 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #820 | 164 |
| 1991 | — | #1,046 | 106 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,270 | 76 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #1,831 | 41 |
| 1988 | — | #1,671 | 42 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,534 | 46 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,694 | 37 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,644 | 38 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,481 | 42 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,822 | 30 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,518 | 19 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,637 | 15 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,799 | 13 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,939 | 21 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,549 | 12 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Trae! It came in at #3,601, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Trae is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,108 · 1 in 20,587
Best ever in a state: #226 in Iowa, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,108 | 7 | 1 in 20,587 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Trae
- 903 spots since 2024 (#2,476 → #3,379)
- 1,032 spots since 2020 (#2,347 → #3,379)
- 1,024 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #3,379)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 1992 (#1,046 → #820)
- Biggest drop: 177 spots in 1994 (#735 → #912)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1993 at #735 (201 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1992–1995
- Highest: 1 in 9,758 boys born in 1993 were named Trae (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,238 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.5% of all boys named Trae (1,384) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 40 | #2,476 (1965) | #3,264 |
| 1970s | 134 | #1,939 (1970) | #2,968 |
| 1980s | 314 | #1,481 (1984) | #2,219 |
| 1990s | 1,384 | #735 (1993) | #963 |
| 2000s | 1,220 | #1,038 (2000) | #1,262 |
| 2010s | 720 | #1,390 (2010) | #2,120 |
| 2020s | 321 | #2,134 (2021) | #2,571 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Trae in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 45,578 of them was named Trae, which outranked 80.3% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,645Yusef43
- #1,645Zacharia43
- #1,645Zeke43
- #1,671Trae42
- #1,671Baltazar42
- #1,671Brenda42
- #1,671Carrington42
- #1,706Ambrose41
- #1,706Antwaun41
- #1,706Arjun41
Tied with 34 names at #1,671; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.