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Tremelle vs Trenton

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 18 Tremelles. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tremelle 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 1966, when Tremelle had 12 and Trenton had 99.

Side by side

  Tremelle Trenton
Total US births 1858,635
Most in one year 122,335
Babies in 2025 under 5213
Estimated living today 1657,000
Median age today 5923
Peak year 19662007
Best rank 2,327th boys178th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,038th
First recorded 19661913
Girls / boys 0 / 1878 / 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 Tremelles alive today are over 59; half the Trentons are over 23. That is 36 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: Tremelle and Trenton.