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Tricia vs Tripp

American parents have registered 40,222 Tricias since 1880, against 8,975 Tripps. But in 2025 it was Tripp that was commoner, 572 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tricia Tripp

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

Of the 87 years in which either name was published, Tricia for 67 years and Tripp for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tricia Tripp
Total US births 40,2228,975
Most in one year 3,489711
Babies in 2025 12572
Estimated living today 38,0008,900
Median age today 527
Peak year 19712022
Best rank 109th girls436th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd522nd
First recorded 19391957
Girls / boys 40,134 / 880 / 8,975

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 Tripps are over 7. That is 45 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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