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Trebor vs Treva

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 504 Trebors. Treva is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trebor 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 122 years and Trebor for 15 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Trebor Treva
Total US births 5049,675
Most in one year 29174
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 4905,200
Median age today 2962
Peak year 19941962
Best rank 2,556th boys786th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19701886
Girls / boys 0 / 5049,664 / 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 Trebors are over 29. That is 33 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: Trebor and Treva.