US Name Trends

Trevor

A Welsh place name, tref fawr, “big settlement.”

1998peak year
No. 58best rank (1994)
161,775babies since 1880
No. 679rank in 2025

Popularity, 1880–2025

Babies named Trevor per year — peak 6,598▬ girls ▬ boys18801900192019401960198020002020

Trevor first shows up in the national records in 1915. It has ranked among the top 100 names for American boys in every year from 1986 to 2003. Its biggest year was 1998, when 6,598 newborn boys received the name, ranking it No. 58 nationally. In 2025 it ranked No. 679 for boys. All told, 161,775 Americans have been given the name since 1880.

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Other spellings on record: Trever (6,311), Treavor (740) (total births since 1880)

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By the decade

DecadeBirthsBest rank
1910s60No. 1707
1920s116No. 1672
1930s133No. 1636
1940s247No. 1029
1950s453No. 919
1960s3,738No. 250
1970s12,347No. 153
1980s26,692No. 83
1990s59,943No. 58
2000s40,055No. 75
2010s14,053No. 167
2020s3,327No. 406

Births and rank shown for boys, the sex more often given the name. The Social Security Administration omits name–year combinations with fewer than five births.

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Data: U.S. Social Security Administration national baby-name file, 1880–2025.