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Trenton vs Treyson

American parents have registered 58,635 Trentons since 1880, against 1,987 Treysons. Trenton is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trenton Treyson

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 2024, when Trenton had 271 and Treyson had 61.

Side by side

  Trenton Treyson
Total US births 58,6351,987
Most in one year 2,335119
Babies in 2025 21347
Estimated living today 57,0002,000
Median age today 2313
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 178th boys1,413th boys
Rank in 2025 1,038th2,718th
First recorded 19131990
Girls / boys 78 / 58,5570 / 1,987

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 Treysons are over 13. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Trenton Treyson
England and Wales 463

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 Treyson.