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Trever

#6,767 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Trever has been given to 6,311 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #6,767 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 248 recorded.

Babies named Trever, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trever: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trever means

Trever is a given name.

The naming story behind Trever

Wikidata records Trever as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q135069114, 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, 6,311 boys were recorded with the name Trever between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 248 in 1994; its best national rank was #658 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,681 in 2020 to #6,767 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,713 in 2015 to #6,767 in 2025.

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 Trever?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,767
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trever 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trever. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trevers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trever was born before 1995 — so the typical Trever is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,311
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (2,173).

Is Trever 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
−2,086
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,054
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.2%
Peak was 1994 (248)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#658
1994

Spellings of Trever

Trever is not the most common spelling — Trevor is, with 59.8% against Trever's 2.3%.

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 Trever is used

Across 1910–2025, Trever was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 45,927 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 7,143
  2. 2Oregon1 in 16,667
  3. 3Washington1 in 16,667
  4. 4Idaho1 in 20,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 20,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 25,000
  7. 7California1 in 33,333
  8. 8Florida1 in 33,333

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

Trever around the world

Where Trever 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.

  • Ireland
    1975–1975
    #321
    in 1975
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,079
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1946–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Trever by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,767
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,086
Best rank ever
#658
1994
Peak year
1994
248 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,311
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Trever

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

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Names with a curve like Trever

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

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Sibling names for Trever

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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