Trevor
Feminine · “Big settlement”
Trevor is given to boys far more often — 161,164 boys against 611 girls since 1880. See Trevor as a boy name
Trevor is a Welsh place name that became one of the defining boys' names of the late twentieth century in America. Two Trevors of the mid-century left gentle, lasting marks: a priest who put a trumpet in a boy's hands, and an actor in the most restrained love story ever filmed.
How old is the name Trevor?
Trevor first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Trevor alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 600 people named Trevor are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Trevor most popular?
Trevor peaked in 1973, reaching #3342 nationally. See the whole 1973 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Trefor to Trevor
The story of Trevor
In Johannesburg in the 1950s the English priest Trevor Huddleston, who fought apartheid from the township of Sophiatown, gave a schoolboy called Hugh Masekela his first trumpet; Masekela became one of the great jazz musicians of Africa, and Louis Armstrong later sent the school band another. In 1945 Trevor Howard played the doctor in David Lean's Brief Encounter, who falls in love with a married woman at a railway station and lets her go. Trevor crossed from Wales and England to become a common American boy's name in the later twentieth century.
Meaning
Big settlement
From Welsh Trefor, from tref, 'homestead, town', and mawr, 'big'.
How the name formed
- Trefor
- Trevor
Related forms: Trefor
Pronouncing Trevor
TREV-er
Two syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Trevor
Limited
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
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 198726 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3342reached in 1973
- Change vs 2009
- −16.7%5 in 2014, from 6
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.
Trevor in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Trefor in Welsh — same name
Trevors among us
people named Trevor are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Trevor sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Instantly recognized and spelled as everyone expects.
- A settled Welsh meaning.
- Comes with Trev as a ready short form.
- It was very common a generation ago, so it reads as a name of that era.
- In Britain it can sound more middle-aged than it does in America.
- For a girl it would be very unusual.
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Frequently asked
- How many Trevors are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Trevor are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Trevor in 2025?
- Trevor is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Trevor with classmates?
- Trevor will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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