Treva

Where Treva comes from

Treva 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. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #541
    151 babies named Treva — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1956
    Treva King born
    Australian field hockey player
  4. 1965
    Treva Etienne born
    English actor
  5. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,570.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Treva Etienne · English actor, born 1965
  • Treva King · Australian field hockey player, born 1956
  • Treva Throneberry · convicted American con artist, born 1969

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.