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Trenny vs Treva

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 33 Trennys. Treva is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenny 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 1968, when Trenny had 21 and Treva had 115.

Side by side

  Trenny Treva
Total US births 339,675
Most in one year 21174
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 305,200
Median age today 5762
Peak year 19681962
Best rank 2,789th girls786th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19681886
Girls / boys 33 / 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 Trennys are over 57. That is 5 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: Trenny and Treva.