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Trina vs Trinette

American parents have registered 32,598 Trinas since 1880, against 956 Trinettes. Trina is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trina against Trinette, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trina Trinette

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

Trina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1893 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Trina had 83 and Trinette had 7.

Side by side

  Trina Trinette
Total US births 32,598956
Most in one year 1,93886
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 30,000890
Median age today 5452
Peak year 19701971
Best rank 172nd girls1,280th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 18931956
Girls / boys 32,568 / 30956 / 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 Trinas alive today are over 54; half the Trinettes are over 52. That is 2 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: Trina and Trinette.