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Boy · English (American place name)
Trenton
Say it: TREN-tun
Meaning
From the city of Trenton, New Jersey, named after the colonial merchant William Trent ('Trent's town').
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An American place name used as a boys' name, most popular in the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 57,095 babies given this name since 1913
- At its height in 2007, about 1 in 888 boys
- 433 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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