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Trevian
How to Pronounce Trevian
Pronounced TREV-ee-uhn /ˈtrɛv.i.ən/Medium
Meaning: Trevian is an African-American coined name extending Trevon and Trevor, which share the Welsh element trev, 'homestead' or 'town'. Built on that fashionable Trev- opening, it carries a faint 'homestead' sense within a modern, invented form.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Trevian is a coinage that stretches the popular Trev- names — Trevor and Trevon — with an -ian ending. Trevor comes from the Welsh trev, 'homestead' or 'town', combined with an element meaning 'big', and Trevon is a modern American offshoot. Trevian keeps that faint 'homestead' echo while sounding entirely contemporary, a hallmark of the era's inventive African-American naming.
Trevian appears in the U.S. record from around 1990 and reached its small peak in 1998 before easing off, with scattered use since. A boy named Trevian from that peak is now in his twenties. It has always been rare, built on a fashionable prefix with only a faint Welsh link, and reads clearly as a name of its late-1990s moment.
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What does the name Trevian mean?
Trevian is a coined name extending Trevon and Trevor, which share the Welsh element trev, 'homestead'.
How do you pronounce Trevian?
It's said TREV-ee-uhn /ˈtrɛv.i.ən/ — three syllables, stress on the first.
Is Trevian a boy or girl name?
Trevian is used as a boy's name.
How popular is Trevian?
Trevian has always been rare in the U.S., a coined extension of Trevon most seen in the late nineteen-nineties.