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Trenton vs Trenyce

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 123 Trenyces. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenton Trenyce

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 2003, when Trenton had 2,186 and Trenyce had 88.

Side by side

  Trenton Trenyce
Total US births 58,635123
Most in one year 2,33588
Babies in 2025 213under 5
Estimated living today 57,000120
Median age today 2322
Peak year 20072003
Best rank 178th boys2,033rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,038thunranked
First recorded 19132003
Girls / boys 78 / 58,557123 / 0

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Trenton Trenyce
England and Wales 467

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: Trenton and Trenyce.