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Free cursive name tracing worksheet

Type a name and get a printable PDF of it in cursive. The sheet writes the name large at the top in joined letters, then rows of it in light grey to trace over, then empty lines at the bottom to write it without help. All of it sits on four-line handwriting guides. Print it at home. It's free, with no sign-up, and the name never leaves your browser.

The height from the top line to the baseline. Bigger lines are for younger hands. A long name gets smaller letters so it fits across the page.

Cursive, joined, or switch to print for a sheet with numbered start dots and stroke arrows.

For printing at home, 8.5" × 11" is US Letter.

What's on the sheet

Cursive name tracing worksheet for Maya: the name in solid joined cursive, rows of it in grey to trace over, then blank handwriting lines

One page, like this one for Maya. The name once, big, in solid cursive, every letter joined to the next the way the font joins it. Then the name in light grey, repeated across each row as many times as it fits, to write over in pencil. The last rows are blank four-line guides: a solid top line, a dashed midline, a solid baseline and a dotted line for tails.

The cursive

The letters are the Playwrite US Trad font, a traditional American cursive, free under the SIL Open Font License: the same cursive as the free cursive A–Z worksheets. There are no start dots or stroke arrows in cursive: the solid name at the top is the model. Schools that teach a different cursive model will show some capitals differently.

Letters it draws

Capitals A–Z, lowercase a–z and the numbers 0–9, up to 16 characters and spaces. Accented letters, hyphens and apostrophes aren't drawn yet, so "Mary-Kate" comes out as "MaryKate". The note under the name box says when something was left out.

Making a whole book?

Trace Press makes a full A–Z letter tracing workbook in this same cursive, or in print, plus its cover, laid out to Amazon KDP's rules so it can be sold as a paperback. It's free to try; $19 once makes it ready to sell. Or see a finished book first.