tracy
/ˈtɹeɪsi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional 19th century and later usage.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""What's the first name?" […] "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!" "Good God!" said Archie. "It couldn't really be that, could it?" Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest. "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker.""
- "Tracy Kidder's specialty is putting ordinary people's lives and projects under a microscope and finding drama where few others would think to look. He established himself with [The Soul of a New Machine] (1981), a book detailing the human interactions behind the rush to create a new computer."
- ""That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with.""
- "Her name was Theresa (often Tracy) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls."
- "His family, who live in West Des Moines, Iowa, have been left “devastated,” his owner Tracy Wolfe said in GWR press release. “He was just the best giant boy,” she added."
- "A Tracy man is recovering from severe wounds after being gored by a bull."
Etymology
A Norman baronial surname from places in France, derived from the Gallo-Roman given name Thracius which referred to Thrace + the Celtic suffix *-āko (place, property). As a female given name, it is also known as a diminutive of Theresa.