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Trevor
Say it: TREV-er
Meaning
From a Welsh surname and place name Trefor, from tref 'homestead, settlement' and mawr 'great'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Taken up as a first name in Britain in the early 20th century and popular in the US in the 1980s and 1990s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 159,144 babies given this name since 1915
- At its height in 1998, about 1 in 290 boys
- 723 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Trefor
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Famous bearers
- Trevor Noah, South African comedian
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Where this comes from
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.