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Tresean vs Treva

American parents have registered 9,675 Trevas since 1880, against 651 Treseans. But in 2025 it was Tresean that was commoner, 7 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tresean against Treva, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tresean 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 138 years in which either name was published, Treva for 114 years and Tresean for 24 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Tresean Treva
Total US births 6519,675
Most in one year 43174
Babies in 2025 76
Estimated living today 6405,200
Median age today 1962
Peak year 20071962
Best rank 2,765th boys786th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th13,208th
First recorded 19921886
Girls / boys 0 / 6519,664 / 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 Treseans are over 19. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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