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Trenace vs Trent

American parents have registered 51,710 Trents since 1880, against 100 Trenaces. Trent is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenace 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 1953, when Trenace had 32 and Trent had 89.

Side by side

  Trenace Trent
Total US births 10051,710
Most in one year 321,719
Babies in 2025 under 5142
Estimated living today 9048,000
Median age today 5429
Peak year 19532001
Best rank 1,758th girls208th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,341st
First recorded 19531916
Girls / boys 100 / 0102 / 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 Trenaces alive today are over 54; half the Trents are over 29. That is 25 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: Trenace and Trent.