Name profile

Trevor

A name meaning "big village".

PronunciationAmerican English /ˈtɹɛv.əɹ/; British English /ˈtɹɛv.ə/
Usage languagesEnglish, Welsh
US rank (2025)#679

Meaning and history

Trevor comes from the Welsh surname Trevor, which was originally taken from place names in Wales meaning “big village,” from Middle Welsh tref “village” and maur “large.” As a given name, it became popular in the United Kingdom in the mid-20th century and spread to the United States in the 1960s.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 3,333 births, rank #125
2007: 3,061 births, rank #136
2008: 2,828 births, rank #147
2009: 2,666 births, rank #149
2010: 2,322 births, rank #167
20112011: 2,150 births, rank #180
2012: 1,881 births, rank #203
2013: 1,537 births, rank #234
2014: 1,333 births, rank #274
2015: 1,189 births, rank #305
20162016: 1,095 births, rank #320
2017: 909 births, rank #361
2018: 855 births, rank #376
2019: 782 births, rank #399
2020: 730 births, rank #406
20212021: 657 births, rank #458
2022: 555 births, rank #536
2023: 531 births, rank #552
2024: 454 births, rank #624
20252025: 400 births, rank #679

Trevor moved from #625 to #680 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1998, with 6,598 births.