Trey
Trey is ranked 789th among boys in 2024 (317 births). Its best rank was 189th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- #789down 70 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3170.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19991,798 births
- Best rank
- #189in 1999
- Since 1948
- 40,196people given the name
The story in the numbers
40,196 boys have been named Trey in the United States since 1948, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 1,798 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 477 → 789).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 35%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Trey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | |
| 1950s | 154 | |
| 1960s | 727 | |
| 1970s | 1,099 | |
| 1980s | 3,391 | |
| 1990s | 12,618 | |
| 2000s | 13,889 | |
| 2010s | 6,408 | |
| 2020s | 1,904 |
In 1999, its biggest year
Trey was the 189th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Trey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mykalpeak 2001
- Dallinpeak 2002
- Jariuspeak 2000
- Zakarypeak 2002
- Dashawnpeak 1994
- Darrionpeak 1994
- Collinpeak 1996
- Maximillianpeak 1999
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.