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Tressa vs Trey

American parents have registered 40,573 Treys since 1880, against 7,034 Tressas. Trey is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tressa 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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Tressa for 98 years and Trey for 48 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tressa Trey
Total US births 7,03440,573
Most in one year 1931,803
Babies in 2025 6269
Estimated living today 5,10039,000
Median age today 4824
Peak year 19711999
Best rank 757th girls189th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th883rd
First recorded 18801948
Girls / boys 7,034 / 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 Tressas alive today are over 48; half the Treys are over 24. That is 24 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: Tressa and Trey.