Tracy

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.
   • "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...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
   • 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.1999 April 1, Katie Bacon, “Books & Authors”, in The Atlantic
3. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
   • "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."1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 130
   • Her name was Theresa (often Tracy) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.1993, Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns, Caxton Press, →ISBN, page 144
4. A village in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada.
5. A sizable city in San Joaquin County, California.
   • A Tracy man is recovering from severe wounds after being gored by a bull.2018 July 8, “'I Was Going To Die': Man Gored By Bull In Tracy”, in CBS News
6. A neighborhood in the town of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
7. A ghost town in Essex Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
8. An unincorporated community in Union Township, LaPorte County, Indiana.
9. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
10. An unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky.
11. A small city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
12. A tiny city in Platte County, Missouri.
13. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
14. An unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming.