Traci as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Traci

What is the meaning of the name Traci ?

The baby name Traci is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced TRAY-see.

Traci is English, Latin, Norman French in Origin.

Traci is a modern feminine spelling of Tracy, an English given name taken from the surname Tracy. The surname is chiefly Norman, from places called Tracy in Calvados and elsewhere in northern France. Their medieval forms go back to Gallo-Roman Thraciacus, a villa or estate name built from the Latin personal name Thracius plus the locative-estate suffix -acum. Thracius itself is an ethnic name, literally Thracian, referring to Thrace in southeastern Europe.

As a forename, Tracy was a transferred surname used for both sexes in the English-speaking world, then became especially feminine in mid-20th-century America and Britain. Traci, with final -i, reflects a 1960s–1970s American taste for informal feminine spellings alongside Tracie and Tracee. The Irish surname Tracey or Treacy, from Ó Treasaigh and Old Irish treasach, fierce or warlike, sometimes colors the name’s explanation, though it is a separate etymology.