I went to high school with several Treys. In addition, there must have been 20 guys named Chad, at least 10 named Corey, lots of Dustins (from Dustin Hoffman’s popularity, I think,) and a lot of Kyles.
What do these names all have in common? You never see anyone older than 25 with any one of them!
Where did these names even come from anyway? Trey? Was the mother hit over the head with a tray in the cafeteria while she was pregnant? What’s with that?
Dunno what the origins of the name actually are, but my brother goes by “Trey”.
It’s a reference to him being the third (as in Frank III).
Yeah, all the Treys I know were/are "the third"s. Don’t know why Juniors are called “Duece,” but they aren’t . . . .
That should read “why Juniors aren’t calle Duece . . . .”
I have met a “Deuce” junior before: The son of my high school wrestling coach, who was himself an assistant coach, was named “Royce Deckard II,” and went by “Deuce Deckard.”
Many of the guys named Trey died. While I’m sure it wasn’t on the top 100 list ever, it was a not totally uncommon name in the South during the last 100 years or more.
There are over 1300 guys named Dustin who have died in the last 50 years. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gsfn=dustin&gsln=&sx=&f9=&f8=&f10=&f6=&f5=&f7=&f1=&f15=&f14=&f13=&f12=&f20=&f0=&db=ssdi&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=&gst=&submit.x=37&submit.y=12
20 year white male here, of southwestern Minnesoda extraction, with the name Trey. I asked my mother why she chose this name, and she just told me she thought it sounded good.
Also, is it just me, or are most guys with the name Trey black? I went to middle & part of high school in Lousiana & Mississippi, and the only other people name Trey that I have met have been of African ancestory.
Here’s a similar thread on the subject from a while back.
I think “Trey” is a once regional name that has since spread, although I have no specific data to that efect. The variant spelling T-R-E is definitely black.
Another reason:
I know a guy named Tracey.
Trey is his name of choice.
I was a grown woman in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s when I first heard the name “Trey” used for a male. Again, he was “the III.”
I knew a guy who called himself “Third”. I guess his parents didn’t like “Trey”. He was a III.
My Uncle, JFD, Jr., is called “Junie”
Somehow Thurston Howell III sounds a little more ritzy than Trey Howell.
My brother is a III. But he had the misfortune of the nickname “Trips” instead of “Trey”, after a card game.
I don’t know how old Trey Gunn (formerly of King Crimson) is, but he’s way past 25.
Chad is an ancient Anglo-Saxon name. The most famous Chad was St. Chad of Mercia, first Bishop of Lichfield. His brother was named Cedd.
As to why the Chads you know are young - well, there’s trends in names, just like anything else. Maybe your area is going through a Chad-trend, much as parts of Florida did in the late fall of 2000. 
Nah … that’s just selective memory and coincidences. Those names were all accounted-for in my school days (especially popular were Chad and Trey), and my cohort is collectively entering its mid-30s.
My school days were spent in the New Orleans area, FWIW.
I always thought Chad was a nickname for Charles, not that there seem to be many Charleses today. Were the Chads you refer to really Chads, or were they Charleses?
I swear to Og, I tried to be original! In 1993, I named my son after the actor Kyle McLaughlin, my once favorite odd-actor. Every single person I told his name to exclamed, “My, what an odd name! Wherever did you come up with that?”
Fast-forward 11ish years. He’s one of 4 Kyles in his class. :smack:
So, I have to defend some of those moms out there who didn’t pick the name because it was popular, but instead made it popular somehow. I swear there was just something in the water that year. Or 1920’s style name-rays which hit us gestating ones with the same thought all at once. :rolleyes: