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Trecia vs Trey

American parents have registered 40,573 Treys since 1880, against 691 Trecias. Trey is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trecia 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 87 years in which either name was published, Trey for 73 years and Trecia for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Trecia Trey
Total US births 69140,573
Most in one year 401,803
Babies in 2025 under 5269
Estimated living today 59039,000
Median age today 5724
Peak year 19691999
Best rank 1,980th girls189th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked883rd
First recorded 19241948
Girls / boys 691 / 097 / 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 Trecias alive today are over 57; half the Treys are over 24. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Trecia Trey
France 1015

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: Trecia and Trey.