Trent

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Trent: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Trent: Recorded every year since 1972, it reached #36 in 1978, and it stood at #520 in 2024.

5registrars recorded it
69times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#36highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Trent's record

Ranked every year since 1972, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 28 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1578
1998	#887
1999	#1082
2000	#773
2001	#910
2002	#993
2003	#1011
2004	#1732
2005	#1246
2006	#939
2007	#1361
2008	#894
2009	#1358
2010	#1289
2011	#1124
2012	#1313
2013	#1339
2014	#1560
2015	#1673
2016	#1570
2017	#2172
2018	#1875
2019	#1217
2020	#796
2021	#907
2022	#993
2023	#1207
2024	#1076

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #520 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1076 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1972–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1972
First recorded at #91 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1972 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1972–1995
Highest recorded position: #36 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1978 (recorded 1972–1995).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1076 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Trent appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 554 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1972.

Trent across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Trent's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#773 (2000)	#1076 (2024)	29 of 29	554 (1996–2024)	39 (2020)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#91 (1972)	#36 (1978)	#81 (1995)	24 of 24	3,499 (1972–1995)	229 (1977)
New Zealand · Boys	#91 (1989)	#78 (1997)	#92 (2002)	9 of 14	524 (1989–2002)	66 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#637 (2020)	#414 (2021)	#520 (2024)	5 of 5	27 (2020–2024)	8 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#270 (2020)	#270 (2020)	#374 (2021)	2 of 2	10 (2020–2021)	6 (2020)

Trent by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Trent in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	47	4 of 10	12
2000s	188	10 of 10	19
2010s	167	10 of 10	17
2020sbusiest	152	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 30 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Trent appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #36 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978.

Trent's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1076	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1207	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#993	30	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#907	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#796	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1217	21	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1570	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1560	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1124	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1289	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#894	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#939	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1246	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1011	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#993	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#910	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#773	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1082	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#887	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
1995	New South Wales, Australia	male	#81	102	Insufficient	Not yet available
1994	New South Wales, Australia	male	#96	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
1993	New South Wales, Australia	male	#89	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
1992	New South Wales, Australia	male	#78	122	Insufficient	Not yet available
1991	New South Wales, Australia	male	#70	132	Insufficient	Not yet available
1990	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	144	Insufficient	Not yet available
1989	New South Wales, Australia	male	#54	171	Insufficient	Not yet available
1988	New South Wales, Australia	male	#45	201	Insufficient	Not yet available
1987	New South Wales, Australia	male	#55	148	Insufficient	Not yet available
1986	New South Wales, Australia	male	#53	167	Insufficient	Not yet available
1985	New South Wales, Australia	male	#61	131	Insufficient	Not yet available
1984	New South Wales, Australia	male	#68	121	Insufficient	Not yet available
1983	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	130	Insufficient	Not yet available
1982	New South Wales, Australia	male	#60	142	Insufficient	Not yet available
1981	New South Wales, Australia	male	#55	170	Insufficient	Not yet available
1980	New South Wales, Australia	male	#48	178	Insufficient	Not yet available
1979	New South Wales, Australia	male	#40	206	Insufficient	Not yet available
1978	New South Wales, Australia	male	#36	216	Insufficient	Not yet available
1977	New South Wales, Australia	male	#37	229	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	male	#40	207	Insufficient	Not yet available
1975	New South Wales, Australia	male	#67	122	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New South Wales, Australia	male	#84	94	Insufficient	Not yet available
1973	New South Wales, Australia	male	#80	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
1972	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	New Zealand	male	#92	52	High	Verified
1999	New Zealand	male	#87	57	High	Verified
1998	New Zealand	male	#88	56	High	Verified
1997	New Zealand	male	#78	66	High	Verified
1996	New Zealand	male	#97	54	High	Verified
1995	New Zealand	male	#86	65	High	Verified
1993	New Zealand	male	#94	57	High	Verified
1990	New Zealand	male	#93	55	High	Verified
1989	New Zealand	male	#91	62	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#270	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#414	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1972 and 2024, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #36, first reached in 1978.

It held a top-100 place in 29 years, 28 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 229 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1977.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1989, and 48 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Treasure · #898, 19y
Trevor · #27, 74y
Trey · #506, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jay · #33, 49y
Monique · #39, 51y
Sabrina · #39, 55y
Kellie · #40, 54y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Odhran · #35, 49y
Rebekah · #37, 45y
Lukasz · #34, 50y
Tessa · #38, 42y

Trent was ranked #36 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1978. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Trent and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Trent without appearing here.

Trent moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1246 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #939 and #2538.
Kim Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1732 and #1596 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1246 and #2754.
Wayne Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1875 and #1683 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1217 and #2266.
Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1217 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #796 and #1723.

Moved ahead of Trent

Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1011 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #731.
Arlo Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1011 and #1188 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #875.
Tadhg Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1560 and #1630 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1673 and #996.
Hudson Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1011 and #1092 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #1160.

Moved the opposite way to Trent

Darren Compare
Between 1972 and 1989 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Trent went from #91 to #54 while Darren went from #17 to #85.
Ian Compare
Between 1972 and 1989 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Trent went from #91 to #54 while Ian went from #37 to #78.
Mitchell Compare
Between 1979 and 1995 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Trent went from #40 to #81 while Mitchell went from #91 to #11.
Philip Compare
Between 1972 and 1988 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Trent went from #91 to #45 while Philip went from #64 to #98.

Moved the same way as Trent

Ben Compare
Between 1976 and 1995 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Trent went from #40 to #81 and Ben from #62 to #92.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #36 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Trent

Trent at a glance

What stands out in Trent's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Trent across 5 official records

Trent by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Trent appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Trent at a glance

What stands out in Trent's record

Trent across 5 official records

Trent by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Trent appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Trent

Trent and the names beside it

Trent moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Trent

Moved the opposite way to Trent

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