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Trenyce vs Trey

American parents have registered 40,573 Treys since 1880, against 123 Trenyces. Trey is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trenyce against Trey, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trenyce Trey

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

Trey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Trenyce had 88 and Trey had 1,516.

Side by side

  Trenyce Trey
Total US births 12340,573
Most in one year 881,803
Babies in 2025 under 5269
Estimated living today 12039,000
Median age today 2224
Peak year 20031999
Best rank 2,033rd girls189th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked883rd
First recorded 20031948
Girls / boys 123 / 097 / 40,476

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 Treys alive today are over 24; half the Trenyces are over 22. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Trenyce Trey
England and Wales 7933

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: Trenyce and Trey.