Tremaine
Masculine · “settlement by the stone”
Tremaine is given to both — 4,518 boys and 288 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Tremaine is Cornish and it describes a place exactly: tre is a farmstead or a settlement, men is a stone, so the name is the farm by the standing stone. Cornwall is full of prehistoric stones and of tre- place names, and this one names several real villages.
How old is the name Tremaine?
Tremaine first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Tremaine alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 4,400 people named Tremaine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tremaine most popular?
Tremaine peaked in 1984, reaching #683 nationally. Today it ranks #5045, 4,362 places below that high. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tre-men to Tremaine
The story of Tremaine
Cornish is a Celtic language, closely related to Breton and Welsh, and its place names describe the land with the same precision as Old English ones do. Families took surnames from them, and Tremaine, Trevithick, Tregoning and Trelawny all crossed to America with Cornish miners in the nineteenth century, particularly to Michigan, Wisconsin and Montana. As a first name Tremaine belongs to the twentieth century, and it has been given especially in Black American families since the nineteen-seventies.
Meaning
settlement by the stone
Cornish tre, a farmstead, homestead or settlement, joined to men or maen, a stone. The saying goes that by Tre, Pol and Pen you shall know the Cornishmen, and tre is the commonest of the three in Cornish place names.
How the name formed
- tre-men
- Tremaine
Related forms: Tremen · Tremayne
Pronouncing Tremaine
truh-MAIN
Two syllables with the stress at the end, the last rhyming with rain. Cornish says it much the same way.
Nicknames for Tremaine
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 2010178 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #683reached in 1984
- Change vs 2024
- −26.9%19 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tremaine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tremen in Cornish — same name
- Tremayne in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Louisiana.
Tremaines among us
people named Tremaine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 89,899 born in 2025 was named Tremaine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tremaine
- #5045
- Tremaine on the 2025 chart
- #896
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tremaine went to 19 boys in 2025, but Tremayne is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 32, which makes it the 896th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,149 places above the chart.
- Tremaine19
- Tremayne13
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,899 for Tremaine itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Broderick test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tremaine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Broderick climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Broderick's path sketches the road Tremaine is walking now.
Tremaine sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tremaine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tremaine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is precise, geographical and points at places that still exist.
- Tre and Trey are ready short forms and both are complete names.
- It carries a Celtic language that very few names in American use come from.
- Tremaine and Tremayne are both standard, so records within a family may differ.
- The Cornish connection is invisible to almost everyone and gets explained often.
- Three syllables is more than the sound needs, and the name gets clipped to Tre early.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tremaines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Tremaine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tremaine?
- Tremaine is the most-used spelling in US records — 19 of the 32 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Tremayne.
- How popular is the name Tremaine in 2025?
- Tremaine ranks #5045 among US boy names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tremaine?
- About 1 in every 89,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Tremaine — 19 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tremaine with classmates?
- Tremaine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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