girls:
78 births since 1983
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
58.1k births since 1913
#445 (90th percentile)
overall:
58.1k births since 1913
#980 (87th percentile)
The name Trenton is the #980 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 58,141 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 87.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #445 (90.3% percentile) for all time with 58,063 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1983.
Trenton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1983 for girls).
The name Trenton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Trenton reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 80.2% percentile (ranked #176) with 1,054 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 1,054 births per million (ranked 80.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Trenton ranks #644 for boys (29.3% percentile) with 152 births per million, which is 14.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Trenton reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #920) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Trenton".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Trenton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.3% confident that Trenton is pronounced as TREHN-tuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TREHN-tihn, at 13.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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