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Treva

#14,780 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Treva has been given to 9,675 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #14,780 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 174 recorded.

Babies named Treva, 2025

1 in 553,000

Treva over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Treva: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Treva means

Treva is a given name.

The naming story behind Treva

Wikidata records Treva as a given name. The entity identifier is Q52375077, 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, 9,664 girls were recorded with the name Treva between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 174 in 1962; its best national rank was #545 in 1939.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,365 in 2020 to #14,780 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,894 in 2015 to #14,780 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Treva between 1971 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1974; its best national rank was #5,192 in 1974.

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 Treva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,780
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Treva 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 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Treva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Treva was born before 1948 — so the typical Treva is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
14.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,641
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1960s — 14.8% of all recorded uses (1,429).

Is Treva 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
−1,415
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,114
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.4%
Peak was 1962 (174)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#545
1939

Spellings of Treva

Treva is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 38.3% against Treva's 0.89%.

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 Treva is used

Across 1910–2025, Treva was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 22,124 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 4,545
  2. 2Kansas1 in 5,882
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 6,250
  4. 4Indiana1 in 7,143
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 7,143
  6. 6Ohio1 in 9,091
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 10,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Treva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Treva around the world

Where Treva 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.

  • South Australia
    1945–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Treva

People whose public names include Treva, 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.

Treva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,780
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,415
Best rank ever
#545
1939
Peak year
1962
174 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,664
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,192
1974
Peak year
1974
6 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Treva

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

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Names with a curve like Treva

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

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Sibling names for Treva

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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