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Trenton vs Trentyn

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 619 Trentyns. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trenton against Trentyn, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trenton Trentyn

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

Trenton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Trenton had 213 and Trentyn had 8.

Side by side

  Trenton Trentyn
Total US births 58,635619
Most in one year 2,33543
Babies in 2025 2138
Estimated living today 57,000610
Median age today 2316
Peak year 20072011
Best rank 178th boys2,748th boys
Rank in 2025 1,038th8,910th
First recorded 19131992
Girls / boys 78 / 58,5570 / 619

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 Trentons alive today are over 23; half the Trentyns are over 16. That is 7 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: Trenton and Trentyn.