Trent
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning rapid stream or crossing.
How Trent has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #557 |
| 2016 | #642 |
| 2017 | #657 |
| 2018 | #802 |
| 2019 | #843 |
| 2020 | #941 |
Trent by the numbers
In 2025, 20 babies in England and Wales were named Trent. In the US, 388 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 1,719 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Trent. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Trentonsettlement of the trent river673 in the US (2017)
- Truetttrue; faithful; honest135 in the US (2017)
- Torenrocky hill or mountain; a form of Toran9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Trentenswift river; a form of Trenton23 in the US (2017)
- Trinapure; a form of katrina22 in the US (2017)
- Trentinfrom tridentum or the trentino region10 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean water
Like Trent, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Maxwellgreat spring; place name3,118 in the US (2017)
- Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
- Brooksof the small stream1,938 in the US (2017)
- Beckettbee keeper or stream; a surname used as a given name1,763 in the US (2017)
- Beckhamhomestead with a stream1,280 in the US (2017)
- Wadeto go or ford across water899 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Trent
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