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Tricia vs Trinady

American parents have registered 40,222 Tricias since 1880, against 160 Trinadys. Tricia is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tricia against Trinady, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tricia Trinady

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tricia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1939 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Tricia had 21 and Trinady had 11.

Side by side

  Tricia Trinady
Total US births 40,222160
Most in one year 3,48922
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 38,000160
Median age today 5220
Peak year 19712002
Best rank 109th girls5,254th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362ndunranked
First recorded 19392000
Girls / boys 40,134 / 88160 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tricias alive today are over 52; half the Trinadys are over 20. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tricia and Trinady.