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Tres vs Trey

American parents have registered 40,573 Treys since 1880, against 507 Treses. Trey is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tres 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 1957, when Tres had 5 and Trey had 21.

Side by side

  Tres Trey
Total US births 50740,573
Most in one year 181,803
Babies in 2025 11269
Estimated living today 49039,000
Median age today 2524
Peak year 20231999
Best rank 5,255th boys189th boys
Rank in 2025 7,194th883rd
First recorded 19571948
Girls / boys 5 / 50297 / 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.

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