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Tremayne vs Trenton

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 3,996 Tremaynes. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tremayne against Trenton, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tremayne Trenton

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

Trenton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1973, when Tremayne had 142 and Trenton had 192.

Side by side

  Tremayne Trenton
Total US births 3,99658,635
Most in one year 1852,335
Babies in 2025 13213
Estimated living today 3,80057,000
Median age today 3723
Peak year 19752007
Best rank 607th boys178th boys
Rank in 2025 6,446th1,038th
First recorded 19671913
Girls / boys 39 / 3,95778 / 58,557

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 Tremaynes alive today are over 37; half the Trentons are over 23. That is 14 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 Tremayne Trenton
England and Wales 7946

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: Tremayne and Trenton.