Boy · Old French, through English
Trey
Say it: TRAY
Meaning
From an English nickname for a third child or someone named 'the third', from Old French trei 'three'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Long used as a nickname for boys named after father and grandfather, it was given formally mainly from the 1970s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 38,731 babies given this name since 1948
- At its height in 1999, about 1 in 1,100 boys
- 362 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tre
Famous bearers
- Trey Parker, American animator
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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