Trellis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Trellis

The Social Security Administration has registered 344 babies named Trellis between 1909 and 1982, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Trellis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1982. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Trellis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 103 additional births since 1930.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Trellis performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Trellis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Trellis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Trellis 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 344 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.