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Trini vs Trinity

American parents have registered 88,192 Trinitys since 1880, against 949 Trinis. Trinity is still ahead, with 734 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Trini 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 95 years in which either name was published, Trinity for 56 years and Trini for 39 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Trini Trinity
Total US births 94988,192
Most in one year 535,729
Babies in 2025 under 5734
Estimated living today 75087,000
Median age today 5418
Peak year 19672004
Best rank 2,272nd girls48th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked428th
First recorded 19131921
Girls / boys 708 / 24185,348 / 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 Trinis alive today are over 54; half the Trinitys are over 18. That is 36 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: Trini and Trinity.