Humanverse

Trenton vs Trever

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 6,311 Trevers. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trenton against Trever, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trenton Trever

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

Trenton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1966, when Trenton had 99 and Trever had 48.

Side by side

  Trenton Trever
Total US births 58,6356,311
Most in one year 2,335248
Babies in 2025 21313
Estimated living today 57,0006,000
Median age today 2330
Peak year 20071994
Best rank 178th boys659th boys
Rank in 2025 1,038th6,446th
First recorded 19131962
Girls / boys 78 / 58,5570 / 6,311

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 Trevers alive today are over 30; half the Trentons are over 23. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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