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Tri

Boys' name

Three, third

Tri has been given to 666 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Tri, 2020

1 in 477,000

Tri over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tri: meaning, origin, and history

Three, third

Javanese

What Tri means

Tri means “three, third”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tri is used in Indonesian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtri/ for Tri.

Origin, language, and formation

Tri is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Javanese.

Tri comes through Javanese Tri.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 666 boys were recorded with the name Tri between 1976 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,975 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tri?

Tri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tri sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tri was born before 1996 — so the typical Tri is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
666
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (185).

Is Tri rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (28)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,975
1984

Where Tri is used

Across 1910–2025, Tri was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 171,487 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tri around the world

Where Tri ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1988–1997
    #3,244
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1981–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tri by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,975
1984
Peak year
1984
28 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
666
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tri

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tri

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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