Tremayne
Masculine · “farmstead by the stone”
Tremayne is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 3,957 boys against 39 girls since 1880.
By Tre, Pol and Pen shall ye know all Cornishmen, the old rhyme says, and Tremayne is a Tre. The element is the Cornish word for a farmstead or homestead, and it opens more Cornish place names than any other word in the language.
How old is the name Tremayne?
Tremayne first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Tremayne alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 3,800 people named Tremayne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tremayne most popular?
Tremayne peaked in 1975, reaching #607 nationally. Today it ranks #6446, 5,839 places below that high. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tre men to Tremayne
The story of Tremayne
Cornwall kept its own Brythonic language until the eighteenth century, and its place names are almost entirely Cornish rather than English, which is why they look so different from those a few counties east. Tremayne is one of several places of the name in Cornwall, and it gave a surname that spread through the county gentry and then across the Atlantic. Its use as an American given name is twentieth century and belongs to the general movement of surnames into first names, with a strong showing in African American naming from the 1960s onward; its best year in United States records is 1975. The Welsh Trevor, in this same set of names, carries the same tre in its Welsh form tref.
Meaning
farmstead by the stone
Cornish tre, a farmstead, settlement or homestead, plus men or maen, a stone, in its mutated form. Standing stones were the obvious landmarks in a country full of them, and a settlement identified by one needed no further description. The same tre opens Trelawney, Tregoning, Trevithick and hundreds more.
How the name formed
- tre men
- Tremayne
- Tremaine
Related forms: Tremen · Tremaine · Trefaen
Pronouncing Tremayne
truh-MAYN
Two syllables with the stress at the end. Cornish would give both syllables more weight; the English reduction of the first is what makes the -ayn ending land so hard.
Nicknames for Tremayne
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
- 1975179 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #607reached in 1975
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%13 in 2025, from 13
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.
Tremayne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tremen in Cornish — related form
- Tremaine in English — spelling variant
- Trefaen in Welsh — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Tremaynes among us
people named Tremayne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 131,390 born in 2025 was named Tremayne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tremayne
- #6446
- Tremayne on the 2025 chart
- #896
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tremayne went to 13 boys in 2025, but Tremaine 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 — 5,550 places above the chart.
- Tremaine19
- Tremayne13
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 131,390 for Tremayne 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 Lawerence test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tremayne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lawerence climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lawerence's path sketches the road Tremayne is walking now.
Tremayne 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
Tremayne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tremayne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuine Cornish place name with a fully documented meaning.
- Tre and Trey are both short, current and independently used.
- End-stressed, which is uncommon and gives it a distinct rhythm.
- Tremaine is the more common spelling and will be written instead.
- Almost no American will know the Cornish element, so the meaning needs explaining.
- It reads as a name of the 1970s and 1980s in American ears.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tremaynes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,800 people named Tremayne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tremayne?
- Tremayne is one of 2 recorded spellings. Tremaine is the more common one — 19 births in 2025 against 13 for Tremayne.
- How popular is the name Tremayne in 2025?
- Tremayne ranks #6446 among US boy names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tremayne?
- About 1 in every 131,390 US boys born in 2025 was named Tremayne — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tremayne with classmates?
- Tremayne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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