Last Name TRACY

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Meaning Local: Of Traci-Boccage, in the arrondissement of Caen. Settled in Barn-staple, county Devon, the parishes, manors, etc., of Woolcombe-Tracy, Bovey-Tracy, Minet-Tracy, and Bradford-Tracy bear witness to their local ascendency.
Local: A village in the Department of Oise, France. E. Tracy came with William the Conqueror into England. Sir William Tracy was most active among the four knights that killed Thomas a Becket, or which account tradition reports, it is imposed on the Tracys for miraculous penance, that whether they go by land or water, the wind is always in their faces, hence an old saying, "The Tracys have always the wind in their faces." "If this were so," says Dr. Fuller, "it were a favor in a hot summer to the females of that family, and would spare them the use of a fan. "The word may signify a rampart, a terrace.
Origin English, Dutch, French, Irish

Rank 1,093 (2000 US census) 1,082 (1990 US census)
Count 29,316 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 92.5%, or 27117 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 2.86%, or 838 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.5%, or 147 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.37%, or 402 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.19%, or 349 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.58%, or 463 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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