Entry № 10698 · Irish origin

Tracy Tracy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Warlike (Tracy Chapman, Grammy-winning songwriter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "warlike (tracy chapman, grammy-winning songwriter)".

Tracy is from the Irish surname Ó Treasaigh ("descendant of Treasach," meaning warlike), via Norman French. Famously private — has rarely given interviews or toured since 2009.

Warlike. Tracy Chapman's Fast Car defined late-20th-century folk-rock.

The name in its native script.

Tracy
Transliteration
Tracy
Pronunciation
/ ˈtreɪ.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tracy stands.

Tracy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tracys before her.

Real people
Tracy Chapman
American singer-songwriter.
born 1964
Tracee Ellis Ross
American actress.
born 1972
In fiction
Tracy
Hairspray.
1988

Names connected to Tracy.

The number behind Tracy.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tracy reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.