Free Name Tracing Worksheets – 901 Names A to Z (Printable)

Designed by Chris

Below is my full collection of printable and free name tracing worksheets, covering the entire alphabet from A to Z.

These names are derived from this year’s list of most popular names and are designed for early childhood education and handwriting practice.

If you can’t find the name you need, use my blank name tracing templates.

Name Tracing Worksheets for Popular Boys and Girls Names

Can’t find the name you need?
Use my blank name tracing templates, print the template, and write the name in yourself.

Is Your Child Ready to Write their Name?

Before your child starts to write their name, they should be able to write individual letters. For this, you can use my letter tracing activities for all letters of the alphabet, which will help scaffold children’s writing skills. This includes understanding the direction of strokes for letter writing, and developing the requisite fine motor skills for letter writing.

You may wish to start with worksheets that structure the tracing of the first letter of your child’s name.

Children can also engage in tracing activities, such as picture tracing, to help develop fine motor skills and penmanship.

Once your child has the ability to trace letters, the next logical step is word structure. Name tracing is a great place to start for writing full words because it has clear relevance to the child, which can increase motivation and excitement.

What to Teach Next

Once your child has mastered name writing, they can move onto other words and even full sentence writing. Start with sight words, which are common words that children tend to memorize earliest. By tracing sight words, children can both develop skills and experience in word structure, and improve their fluency in reading.

Another option is to move onto identifying beginning sounds of words. When a child can identify a beginning sound and its corresponding letter, children can start to identify how to spell a word from its sound alone. See my beginning sounds page for worksheets you can use.

I hope you enjoyed my educational resources and templates designed to enhance letter recognition, writing skills, and fine motor development for preschoolers and kindergarteners!