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Trae

#3,441 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Trae has been given to 4,179 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #3,441 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 201 recorded.

Babies named Trae, 2025

1 in 97,500

Trae over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trae: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trae means

Trae is a given name.

The naming story behind Trae

Wikidata records Trae as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q99519795, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,133 boys were recorded with the name Trae between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 201 in 1993; its best national rank was #734 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,363 in 2020 to #3,441 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,383 in 2015 to #3,441 in 2025.

In the United States, 46 girls were recorded with the name Trae between 1977 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1993; its best national rank was #8,676 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Trae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,441
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Traes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trae was born before 2001 — so the typical Trae is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,133
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (1,384).

Is Trae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−941
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,078
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,058
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.9%
Peak was 1993 (201)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#734
1993

Spellings of Trae

Trae is not the most common spelling — Troy is, with 23.8% against Trae's 0.46%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Trae is used

Across 1910–2025, Trae was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 84,292 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2Iowa1 in 33,333
  3. 3Indiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  5. 5Utah1 in 33,333
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Trae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trae around the world

Where Trae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1993–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Trae

People whose public names include Trae, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Trae in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Trae. Linked forms have their own page here.

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Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Trae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,441
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,078
Best rank ever
#734
1993
Peak year
1993
201 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,133
Count in 2025
34

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,676
1993
Peak year
1993
10 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TrayTraceTravonTraceyTrayvonTravionTravenTrayceAndraeTracyRaeTracenTrapperTravinTramaineTravellTraevonTraiTraysonTrajanGraeBraeTraydenTran

Names with a curve like Trae

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Trae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DeontaeKeganBrennonDeanthonyDemetriDeseanMarkellDarrienMarquezMarkelHernanJavonte

Sibling names for Trae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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