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Treasure vs Trey

American parents have registered 40,573 Treys since 1880, against 8,963 Treasures. But in 2025 it was Treasure that was commoner, 349 babies to 269.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Treasure 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

Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Trey for 70 years and Treasure for 20 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Treasure Trey
Total US births 8,96340,573
Most in one year 4321,803
Babies in 2025 349269
Estimated living today 8,80039,000
Median age today 1324
Peak year 20211999
Best rank 688th girls189th boys
Rank in 2025 807th883rd
First recorded 19351948
Girls / boys 8,754 / 20997 / 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 Treys alive today are over 24; half the Treasures are over 13. That is 11 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Treasure Trey
England and Wales 183933
France 11015
Ireland 33

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: Treasure and Trey.