Trevor: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced TREV-er · 2 syllables

A given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.

How popular is Trevor?

Trevor was the #679 name in the US in 2025, given to 400 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 68% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1990.

Babies named Trevor in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1990).

Half of US adults named Trevor are older than 32; most are between 20 and 54. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Trevor have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Trevor is pronounced TREV-er.

Trevor was the #679 name in the US in 2025, given to 400 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 68% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1990.

Half of US adults named Trevor are older than 32. Most are between 20 and 54.