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Trent vs Trevell

American parents have registered 51,710 Trents since 1880, against 667 Trevells. Trent is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trent Trevell

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 Trevell had 6.

Side by side

  Trent Trevell
Total US births 51,710667
Most in one year 1,71931
Babies in 2025 1425
Estimated living today 48,000650
Median age today 2926
Peak year 20011992
Best rank 208th boys2,362nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,341st12,008th
First recorded 19161974
Girls / boys 102 / 51,6080 / 667

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 Trevells are over 26. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Trent Trevell
England and Wales 5744

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Trent and Trevell.