Trene

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Trene has been given to 32 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Trene, 1996

1 in 729,000

Trene over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trene: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trene means

Trene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Trene is used in Walloon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Walloon, Trene is pronounced /tʀɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 32 girls were recorded with the name Trene between 1980 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1995; its best national rank was #11,709 in 1995.

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.

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How common is Trene?

Trene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996: 1 in 729,000; 5 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 505,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Trene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 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 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trene was born before 1988 — so the typical Trene is around 37 today.

Median birth year: 1988; About 37 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 32; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Trene 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1995 (7)
Years since peak: 30; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,709; 1995

Spellings of Trene

Trene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 36.0% against Trene's <0.01%.

Irene36.0%355,462
Renee18.8%185,896
Arlene14.5%143,010
Lorene4.0%39,379
Rena4.0%39,124
Trina3.3%32,568
Rene2.2%21,839
Ilene1.8%17,840

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Trene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,709; 1995
Peak year: 1995; 7 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 1996
All-time count: 32
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Trene

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

Treba Trela Trevi Treu Tress Treca Treka Trese Treya Trenny Trenay Trevon Trecie Treona Trent Tremia Erene Roene Tremya Odene Tretha Trew Brene Trelynn

Sibling names for Trene

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

For a sister

Salena Corrina Darby Alexandrea Iman Breonna Fabiola Berenice

For a brother

Hernan Rashawn Madison Austen Deonte Denton Austyn Claudio

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