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Trenton vs Trevaughn

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 867 Trevaughns. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenton Trevaughn

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 1997, when Trenton had 1,808 and Trevaughn had 70.

Side by side

  Trenton Trevaughn
Total US births 58,635867
Most in one year 2,33570
Babies in 2025 213under 5
Estimated living today 57,000850
Median age today 2325
Peak year 20071997
Best rank 178th boys1,499th boys
Rank in 2025 1,038thunranked
First recorded 19131986
Girls / boys 78 / 58,5570 / 867

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 Trevaughns alive today are over 25; half the Trentons are over 23. That is 2 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: Trenton and Trevaughn.