Trent
About 51,710 American babies have been named Trent since 1916, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 1,341st. About 48,000 Trents are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Trent boys named Trent
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 51,710
- Estimated living today
- 48,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 208th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,341st
- First recorded
- 1916
- Girls / boys
- 102 / 51,608
How old the living Trents are
born that year still alive today
Of the 51,710 babies given the name since 1916, about 48,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 8,700 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
from Old English Trēonte; Koch (2006) derives the river name from Proto-Celtic *tri-sent(o)-on-ā-, from the elements *trei (“through”) + *sentus (“path”). Traditionally said to be from cel-bry-pro elements equivalent to tros (“over”) + hynt (“way”), often taken to mean "the trespasser".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Trents
- Trent Alexander-Arnold (born 1998)English association football player
- Trent Reznor (born 1965)American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer
- Trent Sainsbury (born 1992)Australian association football player
- Trent Lott (born 1941)United States Senator from Mississippi
- Trent Boult (born 1989)New Zealand cricketer
- Trent Franks (born 1957)American politician
- Trent Barreta (born 1987)American professional wrestler
- Trent Opaloch (born 1969)Canadian actor and cinematographer
People named Trent with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Trent is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Trent is most concentrated in Utah (3.0×), Idaho (2.2×), Iowa (2.0×), South Dakota (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Trent peaked:
Trent elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Trent | 574 | 796th |
| New Zealand boys | Trent | 524 | 78th |
| Ireland boys | Trent | 27 | 414th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Trent | 10 | 270th |
| Scotland boys | Trent | 3 | 687th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Trent among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Trent | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Trent against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.