Trevan

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Trevan by the numbers

Trevan was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 53 babies in 2010, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Trevan

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Trevan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Trevonlarge settlement or great homestead; a modern respelling of Trevor103 in the US (2017)
  • Trevynsettlement; a form of Trevin or Trevor20 in the US (2017)
  • Trevin56 in the US (2017)
  • Trevian8 in the US (2017)
  • Treva7 in the US (2017)
  • Treven5 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Trevan

Names that are said the same way as Trevan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Treyvonlarge settlement; an invented spelling based on Trevor52 in the US (2017)
  • Trevaughn9 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Trevan

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