Tracy vs Tracey - What's the difference?
tracy | tracey | Alternative forms |
, occasional transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
* 1985 , Snow White and Rose Red , page 130:
* 1993 Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns , Caxton Press, ISBN 0870043498, page 144:
A city in California.
A city in Minnesota.
A city in Missouri.
A village in New Brunswick, Canada.
, a spelling variant of Tracy.
, a popular UK spelling variant of Tracy.
* 2010 , blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
Tracey is a alternative form of tracy.
As proper nouns the difference between tracy and tracey
is that tracy is {{surname|from=Old French} while Tracey is {{surname|from=Old French}}, a spelling variant of Tracy.tracy
English
Alternative forms
* Tracey, TraciProper noun
(en-proper noun)- "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."
- Her name was Theresa (often Tracy ) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.
Derived terms
* TracytonQuotations
* 1921 , Indiscretions of Archie , page 162: *: "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 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." English unisex given namestracey
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —