Trae

Where Trae comes from

Trae hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #3,601 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Peak, #735
    201 babies named Trae — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1995
    Trae Bell-Haynes born
    Canadian basketball player
  4. 1998
    Trae Young born
    American basketball player
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,372.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Trae Young · American basketball player, born 1998
  • Trae Bell-Haynes · Canadian basketball player, born 1995
  • Trae Golden · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Trae Coyle · English association football player, born 2001
  • Trae Waynes · American football player, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.