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Trent vs Tresean

American parents have registered 51,710 Trents since 1880, against 651 Treseans. Trent is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trent Tresean

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 2024, when Trent had 151 and Tresean had 8.

Side by side

  Trent Tresean
Total US births 51,710651
Most in one year 1,71943
Babies in 2025 1427
Estimated living today 48,000640
Median age today 2919
Peak year 20012007
Best rank 208th boys2,765th boys
Rank in 2025 1,341st9,714th
First recorded 19161992
Girls / boys 102 / 51,6080 / 651

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 Trents alive today are over 29; half the Treseans are over 19. That is 10 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: Trent and Tresean.