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Tresa vs Treva

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 4,849 Tresas. Treva is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tresa against Treva, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tresa Treva

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

Of the 136 years in which either name was published, Treva for 118 years and Tresa for 18 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Tresa Treva
Total US births 4,8499,675
Most in one year 206174
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 3,9005,200
Median age today 5962
Peak year 19661962
Best rank 679th girls786th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 18861886
Girls / boys 4,849 / 09,664 / 11

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 Trevas alive today are over 62; half the Tresas are over 59. That is 3 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: Tresa and Treva.