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Trevahn vs Trey

American parents have registered 40,573 Treys since 1880, against 24 Trevahns. Trey is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trevahn against Trey, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trevahn Trey

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

Trey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Trevahn had 13 and Trey had 1,294.

Side by side

  Trevahn Trey
Total US births 2440,573
Most in one year 131,803
Babies in 2025 under 5269
Estimated living today 2039,000
Median age today 3024
Peak year 19951999
Best rank 4,508th boys189th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked883rd
First recorded 19951948
Girls / boys 0 / 2497 / 40,476

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 Trevahns alive today are over 30; half the Treys are over 24. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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