Given name & surname
Treacy
“one who is warlike”
Treacy is a variant of Tracy. One interpretation is “one who is warlike.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Treacy is a variant of Tracy. One interpretation is “one who is warlike.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Irish Ó Treasaigh (“descendant of Treasach”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Treacy is a variant of Tracy. The history of Tracy gives this family its wider story. Tracy’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Treacy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 78
- 0 boys · 78 girls
- Most popular year
- 1962
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1977. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 183 as a first name in 2020; 1,666 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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