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Tracy vs Tracey - What's the difference?

tracy | tracey | Alternative forms |

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, Traci

Proper noun

(en-proper noun)
  • , occasional transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
  • popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • * 1985 , Snow White and Rose Red , page 130:
    • "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."
  • * 1993 Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns , Caxton Press, ISBN 0870043498, page 144:
    • Her name was Theresa (often Tracy ) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.
  • A city in California.
  • A city in Minnesota.
  • A city in Missouri.
  • A village in New Brunswick, Canada.

    • Derived terms

    * Tracyton

    Quotations

    * 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 names

    tracey

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a spelling variant of Tracy.
  • , a popular UK spelling variant of Tracy.
  • * 2010 , blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
    • 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 —