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Trenace vs Trenton

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 100 Trenaces. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenace 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

Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Trenton for 112 years and Trenace for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Trenace Trenton
Total US births 10058,635
Most in one year 322,335
Babies in 2025 under 5213
Estimated living today 9057,000
Median age today 5423
Peak year 19532007
Best rank 1,758th girls178th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,038th
First recorded 19531913
Girls / boys 100 / 078 / 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 Trenaces alive today are over 54; half the Trentons are over 23. That is 31 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 Trenton.