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Trenna vs Trent

American parents have registered 51,710 Trents since 1880, against 736 Trennas. Trent is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenna 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 1935, when Trenna had 11 and Trent had 14.

Side by side

  Trenna Trent
Total US births 73651,710
Most in one year 341,719
Babies in 2025 under 5142
Estimated living today 61048,000
Median age today 5629
Peak year 19702001
Best rank 2,267th girls208th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,341st
First recorded 19211916
Girls / boys 736 / 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 Trennas alive today are over 56; half the Trents are over 29. That is 27 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: Trenna and Trent.