Give Tracie a notebook that's unmistakably hers. Tracie's Notebook has her name in elegant script over a pink watercolor apple blossom cover.
Tracie is a feminine variant of Tracy, says Behind the Name. Tracy comes from an English surname taken from a Norman French place name meaning “domain belonging to Thracius.” Behind the Name notes that Charles Dickens used Tracy for a male character in The Pickwick Papers (1837), and that the film The Philadelphia Story (1940) later popularized it for girls through Tracy Lord. The -ie spelling marks a clearly feminine take.
Behind the Name links Tracie with Tracy and with Theresa-family short forms such as Tess and Tessa when the name is used as a diminutive of Theresa. Trace is a natural everyday clipping. Tracy remains the most common sibling spelling.
Tracie Spencer, born July 12, 1976, is an American singer-songwriter. Wikipedia says she first gained attention in 1987 when, at age 11, she won the junior vocalist competition on Star Search, and that she soon signed with Capitol Records as one of the youngest female artists to do so. Her R&B and pop singles include “Symptoms of True Love” (1988), “This House” (1990) and “Tender Kisses” (1991).
Tracie is a 1970s spelling. US Social Security data has it at 192nd in the 1970s, when more than 13,700 American girls were named Tracie. Behind the Name no longer lists a recent US ranking for this -ie form. Tracy and Tracie clustered together as surname-names for girls in that decade.
Tracy began as a Norman place name. Behind the Name and Wikipedia both trace the surname to a domain belonging to someone called Thracius, long before Dickens and Hollywood turned it into a given name. The jump from place to surname to first name is the same path that gave English Ashley and Whitney.
Tracie’s Notebook works just as well for a teenager as for a grandmother. It’s 6" x 9", which fits in most bags, with 160 lined pages and no printed layout to work around. Use it as a diary, a school notebook, a planner or a place to collect quotes and ideas. A name on the cover turns an everyday notebook into something personal.
A plain notebook is useful. One with her name on it is a gift. Seeing “Tracie’s Notebook” on the cover tells Tracie it was chosen for her, not grabbed off a shelf, and that small touch is often what makes people keep a notebook going instead of abandoning it after a week.
How big is Tracie’s Notebook? 6" x 9", or about 15.2 x 22.9 cm. It’s a paperback with 160 lined pages inside.
Where do I buy it? Tracie’s Notebook is available on Amazon, which prints each copy to order and looks after delivery and refunds.
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