Tracy

See also: trący

English

Alternative forms

• Tracey, Traci, Tracie

Etymology

A Norman baronial surname from places in France, derived from a 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪsi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪsi

Proper noun

Tracy (countable and uncountable, plural Tracys or Tracies)

1. A surname from Old French.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional 19th century and later usage.
   • 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC, page 219:

     "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."

   • 1999 April 1, Katie Bacon, “Books & Authors”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     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.

3. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
   • 1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 130:

     "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."

   • 1993, Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns, Caxton Press, →ISBN, page 144:

     Her name was Theresa (often Tracy) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.

   • 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     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.

4. A village in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A sizable city in San Joaquin County, California.
      • 2018 July 8, “'I Was Going To Die': Man Gored By Bull In Tracy”, in CBS News‎^[3]:

        A Tracy man is recovering from severe wounds after being gored by a bull.

   2. A neighborhood in the town of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
   3. A ghost town in Essex Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Union Township, LaPorte County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
   6. An unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky.
   7. A small city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
   8. A tiny city in Platte County, Missouri.
   9. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
   10. An unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming.

Derived terms

• bacitracin
• Dickless Tracy
• Tracyton

Anagrams

• Carty, carty

French

Etymology 1

Tracy-sur-Loire: From Latin Draptiacus, Dractiacus, Traciacus ; from anthroponym Draccius.

Tracy-sur-Mer: From Latin Traceum ; from anthroponym Draccius or Thracius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.si/

Proper noun

Tracy m

1. a hamlet in Vire, Calvados department, France

Derived terms

• Tracy-Bocage
• Tracy-le-Mont
• Tracy-le-Val
• Tracy-sur-Loire
• Tracy-sur-Mer

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Tracy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛ.si/ ~ /tʁe.si/, /tʁa.si/

Proper noun

Tracy ?

1. Tracy