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Tressa vs Trevor

American parents have registered 161,775 Trevors since 1880, against 7,034 Tressas. Trevor is still ahead, with 400 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tressa 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 146 years in which either name was published, Tressa for 74 years and Trevor for 72 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Tressa Trevor
Total US births 7,034161,775
Most in one year 1936,616
Babies in 2025 6400
Estimated living today 5,100155,000
Median age today 4829
Peak year 19711998
Best rank 757th girls58th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th679th
First recorded 18801915
Girls / boys 7,034 / 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 Tressas alive today are over 48; half the Trevors are over 29. That is 19 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 Trevor.