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Trenten vs Trey

American parents have registered 40,573 Treys since 1880, against 3,265 Trentens. Trey is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenten Trey

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

Trey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Trenten had 187 and Trey had 1,212.

Side by side

  Trenten Trey
Total US births 3,26540,573
Most in one year 1871,803
Babies in 2025 15269
Estimated living today 3,20039,000
Median age today 2124
Peak year 20071999
Best rank 1,017th boys189th boys
Rank in 2025 5,861st883rd
First recorded 19661948
Girls / boys 0 / 3,26597 / 40,476

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 Treys alive today are over 24; half the Trentens are over 21. 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.

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