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Treven vs Trevor

American parents have registered 161,775 Trevors since 1880, against 1,068 Trevens. Trevor is still ahead, with 400 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Treven against Trevor, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Treven Trevor

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

Trevor has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Treven had 40 and Trevor had 1,881.

Side by side

  Treven Trevor
Total US births 1,068161,775
Most in one year 606,616
Babies in 2025 under 5400
Estimated living today 1,000155,000
Median age today 2229
Peak year 20041998
Best rank 1,989th boys58th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked679th
First recorded 19661915
Girls / boys 0 / 1,068611 / 161,164

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 Trevors alive today are over 29; half the Trevens are over 22. That is 7 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: Treven and Trevor.