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Trent vs Trevor

American parents have registered 161,775 Trevors since 1880, against 51,710 Trents. Trevor is still ahead, with 400 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trent against Trevor, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trent Trevor

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

Of the 111 years in which either name was published, Trevor for 85 years and Trent for 26 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Trent Trevor
Total US births 51,710161,775
Most in one year 1,7196,616
Babies in 2025 142400
Estimated living today 48,000155,000
Median age today 2929
Peak year 20011998
Best rank 208th boys58th boys
Rank in 2025 1,341st679th
First recorded 19161915
Girls / boys 102 / 51,608611 / 161,164

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.

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 Trevor
New Zealand 5243,194
Ireland 273,422
England and Wales 574503
Scotland 3238
Northern Ireland 1033

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 Trevor.