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Trenton vs Treston

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 1,282 Trestons. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenton Treston

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 2018, when Trenton had 553 and Treston had 30.

Side by side

  Trenton Treston
Total US births 58,6351,282
Most in one year 2,33565
Babies in 2025 21311
Estimated living today 57,0001,300
Median age today 2322
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 178th boys2,099th boys
Rank in 2025 1,038th7,194th
First recorded 19131979
Girls / boys 78 / 58,5570 / 1,282

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.

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