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Tripp vs Trisha

American parents have registered 40,355 Trishas since 1880, against 8,975 Tripps. But in 2025 it was Tripp that was commoner, 572 babies to 44.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tripp Trisha

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 84 years in which either name was published, Trisha for 66 years and Tripp for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tripp Trisha
Total US births 8,97540,355
Most in one year 7111,777
Babies in 2025 57244
Estimated living today 8,90038,000
Median age today 744
Peak year 20221979
Best rank 436th boys159th girls
Rank in 2025 522nd3,459th
First recorded 19571934
Girls / boys 0 / 8,97540,302 / 53

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 Trishas alive today are over 44; half the Tripps are over 7. That is 37 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: Tripp and Trisha.