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Trinette vs Trinity

American parents have registered 88,192 Trinitys since 1880, against 956 Trinettes. Trinity is still ahead, with 734 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trinette against Trinity, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trinette Trinity

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 70 years in which either name was published, Trinity for 55 years and Trinette for 15 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Trinette Trinity
Total US births 95688,192
Most in one year 865,729
Babies in 2025 under 5734
Estimated living today 89087,000
Median age today 5218
Peak year 19712004
Best rank 1,280th girls48th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked428th
First recorded 19561921
Girls / boys 956 / 085,348 / 2,844

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 Trinettes alive today are over 52; half the Trinitys are over 18. That is 34 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: Trinette and Trinity.