Trent

At the 2020 census, 17,979 Americans bore the surname Trent — 1,958th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,600.

By the numbers

People: 17,979
Rank: 1,958th
How common: 1 in 16,600
Per 100,000: 6.0

Where the name comes from

from Old English Trēonte; Koch (2006) derives the river name from Proto-Celtic *tri-sent(o)-on-ā-, from the elements *trei (“through”) + *sentus (“path”). Traditionally said to be from cel-bry-pro elements equivalent to tros (“over”) + hynt (“way”), often taken to mean "the trespasser".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Trent described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.2%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Trent

Nathan Trent (born 1992)Austrian singer
Gary Trent Jr. (born 1999)American basketball player

People named Trent with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Trent

Also a first name

Trent has been given to 51,710 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.