Trenton
Trenton is ranked 887th among boys in 2024 (269 births). Its best rank was 178th, in 2007.
- Rank in 2024
- #887down 27 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2690.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 20072,335 births
- Best rank
- #178in 2007
- Since 1913
- 58,334people given the name
The story in the numbers
58,334 boys have been named Trenton in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 2,335 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 305 → 887).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 36%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Trenton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 47 | |
| 1920s | 102 | |
| 1930s | 99 | |
| 1940s | 143 | |
| 1950s | 214 | |
| 1960s | 931 | |
| 1970s | 2,691 | |
| 1980s | 5,877 | |
| 1990s | 14,692 | |
| 2000s | 20,898 | |
| 2010s | 10,914 | |
| 2020s | 1,726 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Trenton was the 178th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Trenton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brennonpeak 2009
- Jacobepeak 2007
- Tyshawnpeak 2008
- Brennanpeak 2009
- Brennenpeak 2009
- Javonpeak 2001
- Zethpeak 1999
- Collinpeak 1996
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.