Given name & surname
Tremain
“from the town built of stone”
Tremain is used as a given name and a surname. One Celtic interpretation is “from the town built of stone.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Celtic interpretation is “from the town built of stone.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Celtic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tremain through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 969
- 969 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 45 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −82%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 45 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 728 as a first name in 2020; 931 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tremain’s family of names
Tremain has a related form in Tremaine. Tremain has a related form in Tremayne. Tremain has a related form in Tramaine.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Tremainevariant
- Tremaynevariant
- Tramainevariant
- Tramanevariant
- Tremanevariant
- Tramaynevariant
- Tramainvariant
- Tramaenevariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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