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Tressa vs Treva

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 7,034 Tressas. But in 2025 it was Tressa that was commoner, 6 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tressa against Treva, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tressa Treva

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 146 years in which either name was published, Tressa for 78 years and Treva for 68 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Tressa Treva
Total US births 7,0349,675
Most in one year 193174
Babies in 2025 66
Estimated living today 5,1005,200
Median age today 4862
Peak year 19711962
Best rank 757th girls786th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th13,208th
First recorded 18801886
Girls / boys 7,034 / 09,664 / 11

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 Trevas alive today are over 62; half the Tressas are over 48. That is 14 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.

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