Tresa vs Trevor
American parents have registered 161,775 Trevors since 1880, against 4,849 Tresas. Trevor is still ahead, with 400 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tresa 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 123 years in which either name was published, Trevor for 75 years and Tresa for 48 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1886–1928 Tresa ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1937–1939 Trevor ahead
- 1952–1964 Tresa ahead
- 1965–2025 Trevor ahead
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Tresa | Trevor | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,849 | 161,775 |
| Most in one year | 206 | 6,616 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 400 |
| Estimated living today | 3,900 | 155,000 |
| Median age today | 59 | 29 |
| Peak year | 1966 | 1998 |
| Best rank | 679th girls | 58th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 679th |
| First recorded | 1886 | 1915 |
| Girls / boys | 4,849 / 0 | 611 / 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 Tresas alive today are over 59; half the Trevors are over 29. That is 30 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Tresa Oklahoma (4.6×), Arkansas (3.6×), Kentucky (3.0×)
- Trevor Alaska (2.9×), Utah (2.8×), Nevada (2.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tresa and Trevor.