Tremaine

Where Tremaine comes from

Tremaine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,559 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1976
    Tremaine Fowlkes born
    American basketball player
  4. 1984
    Peak, #683
    161 babies named Tremaine — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1988
    Tremaine Stewart born
    footballer
  6. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,327.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tremaine Fowlkes · American basketball player, born 1976
  • Tremaine Stewart · footballer, 1988–2021
  • Tremaine Harris · Track and field athlete, born 1992
  • Tremaine Edmunds · American football player, born 1997
  • Tremaine Wright · American politician in New York, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.