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Trev

#8,844 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Trevor

Trev has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #8,844 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Trev, 2025

1 in 368,000

Trev over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trev: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Trevor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trev means

Trev is a short form of Trevor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Trev → Trevor. The family’s meaning is “big village”, recorded in the naming reference for Trevor.

Origin, language, and formation

Trev is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Trevor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 boys were recorded with the name Trev between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,461 in 1967.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Trev?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,844
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trev 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trev. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trevs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trev was born before 1977 — so the typical Trev is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
29.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
96
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1960s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Trev 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
+76
Places climbed
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
60.0%
Peak was 1994 (15)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,461
1967

Spellings of Trev

Trev is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 25.6% against Trev's <0.01%.

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.

Where Trev is used

Across 1910–2025, Trev was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 184,869 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 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. Trev has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trev around the world

Where Trev 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
    2023–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Trev by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,844
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,461
1967
Peak year
1994
15 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Trev

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

TreuTrewTreaTrekTresTreiTresonRevTrelynTremirTrellTrezTregTreyceTreyeTresorTrejanTrevelTreggTrelonTreonTremaniTremarTregan

Sibling names for Trev

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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