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Trenace vs Treva

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 100 Trenaces. Treva is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trenace against Treva, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trenace 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

Treva has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1953, when Trenace had 32 and Treva had 115.

Side by side

  Trenace Treva
Total US births 1009,675
Most in one year 32174
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 905,200
Median age today 5462
Peak year 19531962
Best rank 1,758th girls786th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19531886
Girls / boys 100 / 09,664 / 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 Trenaces are over 54. That is 8 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 Treva.