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Trenton vs Treven

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 1,068 Trevens. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenton Treven

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 1967, when Trenton had 114 and Treven had 7.

Side by side

  Trenton Treven
Total US births 58,6351,068
Most in one year 2,33560
Babies in 2025 213under 5
Estimated living today 57,0001,000
Median age today 2322
Peak year 20072004
Best rank 178th boys1,989th boys
Rank in 2025 1,038thunranked
First recorded 19131966
Girls / boys 78 / 58,5570 / 1,068

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 Treven.