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Trent vs Treven

American parents have registered 51,710 Trents since 1880, against 1,068 Trevens. Trent is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trent Treven

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 2012, when Trent had 791 and Treven had 40.

Side by side

  Trent Treven
Total US births 51,7101,068
Most in one year 1,71960
Babies in 2025 142under 5
Estimated living today 48,0001,000
Median age today 2922
Peak year 20012004
Best rank 208th boys1,989th boys
Rank in 2025 1,341stunranked
First recorded 19161966
Girls / boys 102 / 51,6080 / 1,068

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 Trevens are over 22. That is 7 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.

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