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Treva vs Trever

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 6,311 Trevers. But in 2025 it was Trever that was commoner, 13 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Treva against Trever, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Treva 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

Of the 137 years in which either name was published, Treva for 89 years and Trever for 48 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Treva Trever
Total US births 9,6756,311
Most in one year 174248
Babies in 2025 613
Estimated living today 5,2006,000
Median age today 6230
Peak year 19621994
Best rank 786th girls659th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th6,446th
First recorded 18861962
Girls / boys 9,664 / 110 / 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 Trevas alive today are over 62; half the Trevers are over 30. That is 32 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: Treva and Trever.