Name meme (I got it from bloodyaussie)

[goteam]

Just in case you were wondering:

Tracy is the #291 most common male name.
0.048% of men in the US are named Tracy.
Around 58800 US men are named Tracy!

Tracy is the #108 most common female name.
0.197% of females in the US are named Tracy.
Around 251175 US females are named Tracy!

Tracy is the #1082 most common last name.
0.011% of last names in the

Comments

[iainuki]

Almost certainly not. The data appears to be from this US Census page, and there's no distinction between male/female there. My guess is with the others below, that this is a bug.

The use of female variations on presumptively male titles has fallen by the wayside, as far as I can tell. I've rarely seen titles like "aviatrix" or "poetess" in anything written in say, the past twenty years, unless the author was making a point about the existence of such titles. There are certain variations that have gotten grandfathered in, like prince/princess or hero/heroine. These are the exceptions, though, not the rule.

It's also worthwhile noting that the origin of these titles is not only sexism, but also slavish devotion to classical forms. Latin, along with many of the other Romance languages, assigns a gender to all words in the language. Adjectives take the gender of the nouns they modify. Certain English-speakers decided, for reasons that escape me, that a similar schema should be applied to English, and you can observe that certain of the forms are explicitly Latinate in origin (aviatrix). Thus, these rules share a common origin with many other stupid grammar rules in English, like the rule against splitting an infinitive.