Tremain vs Treva
American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 969 Tremains. Treva is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tremain 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 136 years in which either name was published, Treva for 117 years and Tremain for 19 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1886–1988 Treva ahead
- 1989–1992 Tremain ahead
- 1993–1996 Treva ahead
- 1999–2012 Tremain ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2019–2025 Treva ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Tremain | Treva | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 969 | 9,675 |
| Most in one year | 45 | 174 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 6 |
| Estimated living today | 920 | 5,200 |
| Median age today | 36 | 62 |
| Peak year | 1980 | 1962 |
| Best rank | 1,410th boys | 786th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 13,208th |
| First recorded | 1969 | 1886 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 969 | 9,664 / 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 Tremains are over 36. That is 26 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 Treva.