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Trev vs Treva

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 96 Trevs. But in 2025 it was Trev that was commoner, 9 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trev 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 137 years in which either name was published, Treva for 134 years and Trev for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Trev Treva
Total US births 969,675
Most in one year 15174
Babies in 2025 96
Estimated living today 905,200
Median age today 3162
Peak year 19941962
Best rank 4,094th boys786th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd13,208th
First recorded 19661886
Girls / boys 0 / 969,664 / 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 Trevs are over 31. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Trev Treva
Switzerland 37

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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