Meaning not yet researched.
Trenton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 213 in 2025. Its best rank was #178 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #178 in 2007; #1,042 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Trenton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,042 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #178.
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Trenton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 213 boys in 2025. Peak: #178 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 2,335 (2007).
In 2025, 213 US boys were named Trenton, making it the 1,042nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 157 places from #885 in 2024. That is 58 fewer than the 271 boys named Trenton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #178, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,335. For comparison, it was #339 in 2015 and #2,198 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Trenton in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 58,635 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 20,936 babies named Trenton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,518 US boys were named Trenton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 821. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,019 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Trenton ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #480 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Trenten (3,265 babies since 1880) and Trentin (1,300 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Trinton, Trentyn and Trentan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Trinton (738), Trentyn (619), Trentan (135), Trinten (112), Trintin (60), Trynton (20), Trintyn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Trenton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 11 | #480 | #196 |
| Missouri | 11 | #554 | #241 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #619 | #205 |
| Michigan | 12 | #674 | #198 |
| Kansas | 5 | #685 | #253 |
| Ohio | 12 | #748 | #276 |
| Georgia | 13 | #755 | #227 |
| Florida | 18 | #845 | #261 |
| Illinois | 10 | #865 | #412 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #928 | #265 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #997 | #301 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,062 | #342 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,077 | #275 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,172 | #300 |
| New York | 7 | #1,559 | #567 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,643 | #436 |
| California | 7 | #2,186 | #625 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 213 | #1,042 |
| 2024 | — | — | 271 | #885 |
| 2023 | — | — | 282 | #858 |
| 2022 | — | — | 327 | #775 |
| 2021 | — | — | 415 | #656 |
| 2020 | — | — | 438 | #619 |
| 2019 | — | — | 515 | #546 |
| 2018 | — | — | 553 | #511 |
| 2017 | — | — | 683 | #449 |
| 2016 | — | — | 821 | #389 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,015 | #339 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,159 | #305 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,339 | #266 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,512 | #239 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,629 | #217 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,691 | #213 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,834 | #208 |
| 2008 | — | — | 2,055 | #196 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,335 | #178 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,868 | 2,070 | #192 |
| 2005 | — | — | 2,104 | #190 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,732 | 2,055 | #188 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,242 | 2,181 | #179 |
| 2002 | — | — | 2,119 | #180 |
| 2001 | — | — | 2,082 | #181 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,910 | 2,063 | #179 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,779 | 1,943 | #180 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,830 | #183 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,808 | #182 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,421 | 1,707 | #187 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,298 | 1,529 | #199 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,298 | #224 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,278 | #229 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,203 | #239 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,085 | #253 |
| 1990 | — | — | 1,011 | #266 |
| 1989 | — | — | 994 | #256 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,713 | 828 | #283 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,226 | 673 | #316 |
| 1986 | — | — | 670 | #307 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,395 | 663 | #309 |
| 1984 | — | — | 510 | #358 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,214 | 429 | #390 |
| 1982 | — | — | 418 | #405 |
| 1981 | — | — | 336 | #450 |
| 1980 | — | — | 356 | #437 |
| 1979 | — | — | 419 | #392 |
| 1978 | — | — | 359 | #411 |
| 1977 | — | — | 285 | #481 |
| 1976 | — | — | 255 | #504 |
| 1975 | — | — | 269 | #489 |
| 1974 | — | — | 230 | #523 |
| 1973 | — | — | 192 | #574 |
| 1972 | — | — | 220 | #537 |
| 1971 | — | — | 234 | #526 |
| 1970 | — | — | 228 | #536 |
| 1969 | — | — | 175 | #589 |
| 1968 | — | — | 144 | #633 |
| 1967 | — | — | 114 | #698 |
| 1966 | — | — | 99 | #745 |
| 1965 | — | — | 96 | #757 |
| 1964 | — | — | 87 | #811 |
| 1963 | — | — | 73 | #878 |
| 1962 | — | — | 48 | #1,119 |
| 1961 | — | — | 52 | #1,095 |
| 1960 | — | — | 43 | #1,208 |
| 1959 | — | — | 38 | #1,279 |
| 1958 | — | — | 26 | #1,556 |
| 1957 | — | — | 29 | #1,485 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,814 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,679 |
| 1954 | — | — | 20 | #1,754 |
| 1953 | — | — | 18 | #1,896 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #2,000 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,360 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,198 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,116 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,557 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,069 |
| 1946 | — | — | 20 | #1,641 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,921 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,622 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,947 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,676 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,990 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,112 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,869 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,812 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,469 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,609 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,925 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,946 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,986 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,828 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,636 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,964 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,747 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,832 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,897 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,556 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,739 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,128 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,447 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,226 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,838 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,187 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,649 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,130 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,521 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,470 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,886 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,222 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).