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Tremain vs Trent

American parents have registered 51,710 Trents since 1880, against 969 Tremains. Trent is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tremain Trent

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

Trent has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1980, when Tremain had 45 and Trent had 578.

Side by side

  Tremain Trent
Total US births 96951,710
Most in one year 451,719
Babies in 2025 under 5142
Estimated living today 92048,000
Median age today 3629
Peak year 19802001
Best rank 1,410th boys208th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,341st
First recorded 19691916
Girls / boys 0 / 969102 / 51,608

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 Tremains alive today are over 36; half the Trents are over 29. That is 7 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: Tremain and Trent.