Trask — boys' name
113 babies named Trask in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Trask was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Trask in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Trask
The Social Security Administration has registered 113 babies named Trask between 1971 and 2015, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Trask currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Trask performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 66 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Trask shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oregon, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Trask in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Trask in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 113 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Trask at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Trask popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1971
- Peak year (1990)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
113 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 26 births in a single year.
Trask by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 66 births that decade — 58% of Trask's all-time total
Trask decade highlights
- Peak decade 66 births
- Runner-up 17 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Trask's strongest decade
66 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Trask by state
Where Trask concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Oregon | | 5 | 4.4% |
5 of 113 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Oregon 4.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Oregon accounts for 4.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.