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Tre

#2,755 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tre has been given to 5,950 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,755 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 586 recorded.

Babies named Tre, 2025

1 in 70,500

Tre over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tre: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tre means

Tre is a given name.

The naming story behind Tre

Wikidata records Tre as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q96479073, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,892 boys were recorded with the name Tre between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 586 in 1993; its best national rank was #395 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,462 in 2020 to #2,755 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,977 in 2015 to #2,755 in 2025.

In the United States, 58 girls were recorded with the name Tre between 1992 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1992; its best national rank was #7,478 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tre?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,755
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tre sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tre was born before 1999 — so the typical Tre is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
52.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,892
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 52.1% of all recorded uses (3,067).

Is Tre rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−123
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−293
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−778
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.0%
Peak was 1993 (586)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#395
1993

Where Tre is used

Across 2016–2025, Tre was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 42,813 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 12,500
  2. 2Maryland1 in 25,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Tre around the world

Where Tre ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2016
    #2,001
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1994–2011
    #487
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tre

People whose public names include Tre, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tre in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tre. Linked forms have their own page here.

TraeTrey

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tre by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,755
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 293
Best rank ever
#395
1993
Peak year
1993
586 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,892
Count in 2025
47

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,478
1992
Peak year
1992
12 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tre

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tre

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tre, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tre

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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