Meaning not yet researched.
Trey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 269 in 2025. Its best rank was #189 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #189 in 1999; #890 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Trey in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#890 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #189.
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Trey: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 269 boys in 2025. Peak: #189 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 1,798 (1999).
In 2025, 269 US boys were named Trey, making it the 890th most common boys’ name of the year, down 98 places from #792 in 2024. That is 49 fewer than the 318 boys named Trey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #189, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,798. For comparison, it was #553 in 2015 and #3,651 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Trey in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 6 babies. In all, 40,573 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 13,902 babies named Trey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,030 US boys were named Trey; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 485. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,350 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Trey ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #254 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tre (5,950 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tri, Trea and Tria 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: Tri (666), Trea (511), Tria (239), Treu (160), Trei (154), Treya (65), Treye (46), Three (22), Trieu (15), Triya (6).
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 Trey 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 6 | #254 | #216 |
| Utah | 9 | #511 | #189 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #516 | #480 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #523 | #375 |
| Kansas | 6 | #585 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #619 | #585 |
| Illinois | 15 | #628 | #825 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #698 | #304 |
| Florida | 21 | #752 | #695 |
| Ohio | 11 | #796 | #439 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #800 | #776 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #825 | #951 |
| Indiana | 7 | #834 | #355 |
| Texas | 29 | #891 | #669 |
| Michigan | 8 | #894 | #504 |
| New York | 10 | #1,197 | #547 |
| California | 13 | #1,429 | #1,010 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,448 | #622 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 269 | #890 |
| 2024 | — | — | 318 | #792 |
| 2023 | — | — | 369 | #720 |
| 2022 | — | — | 427 | #648 |
| 2021 | — | — | 424 | #649 |
| 2020 | — | — | 368 | #693 |
| 2019 | — | — | 448 | #611 |
| 2018 | — | — | 456 | #599 |
| 2017 | — | — | 485 | #562 |
| 2016 | — | — | 466 | #589 |
| 2015 | — | — | 519 | #553 |
| 2014 | — | — | 597 | #478 |
| 2013 | — | — | 732 | #405 |
| 2012 | — | — | 768 | #390 |
| 2011 | — | — | 972 | #324 |
| 2010 | — | — | 970 | #323 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,024 | #313 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,067 | #313 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,212 | #285 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,372 | #250 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,491 | #229 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,089 | 1,405 | #237 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,516 | #227 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,926 | 1,611 | #213 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,539 | #226 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,653 | #215 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,781 | 1,798 | #189 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,537 | #211 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,291 | #237 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,732 | 1,247 | #237 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,628 | 1,289 | #231 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,509 | 1,367 | #211 |
| 1993 | 11 | #8,025 | 1,629 | #191 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,705 | 1,060 | #269 |
| 1991 | — | — | 696 | #348 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,344 | 704 | #345 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,783 | 610 | #368 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,203 | 504 | #393 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,153 | 451 | #411 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,486 | 430 | #412 |
| 1985 | — | — | 397 | #430 |
| 1984 | — | — | 307 | #478 |
| 1983 | — | — | 228 | #557 |
| 1982 | — | — | 196 | #621 |
| 1981 | — | — | 135 | #752 |
| 1980 | — | — | 136 | #754 |
| 1979 | — | — | 116 | #811 |
| 1978 | — | — | 121 | #769 |
| 1977 | — | — | 111 | #813 |
| 1976 | — | — | 105 | #818 |
| 1975 | — | — | 108 | #803 |
| 1974 | — | — | 101 | #801 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,714 | 107 | #771 |
| 1972 | — | — | 114 | #745 |
| 1971 | — | — | 101 | #802 |
| 1970 | — | — | 115 | #772 |
| 1969 | — | — | 111 | #746 |
| 1968 | — | — | 96 | #761 |
| 1967 | — | — | 81 | #810 |
| 1966 | — | — | 80 | #818 |
| 1965 | — | — | 76 | #846 |
| 1964 | — | — | 83 | #838 |
| 1963 | — | — | 53 | #1,050 |
| 1962 | — | — | 59 | #1,004 |
| 1961 | — | — | 49 | #1,133 |
| 1960 | — | — | 39 | #1,269 |
| 1959 | — | — | 30 | #1,465 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,639 |
| 1957 | — | — | 21 | #1,786 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,674 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,726 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,774 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,368 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #3,048 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,651 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,639 |
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).