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Trenace vs Trevor

American parents have registered 161,775 Trevors since 1880, against 100 Trenaces. Trevor is still ahead, with 400 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trenace against Trevor, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trenace Trevor

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 111 years in which either name was published, Trevor for 110 years and Trenace for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Trenace Trevor
Total US births 100161,775
Most in one year 326,616
Babies in 2025 under 5400
Estimated living today 90155,000
Median age today 5429
Peak year 19531998
Best rank 1,758th girls58th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked679th
First recorded 19531915
Girls / boys 100 / 0611 / 161,164

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Trenaces alive today are over 54; half the Trevors are over 29. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Trenace and Trevor.