Trieu

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Trieu has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1981, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Trieu, 1984

1 in 698,000

Trieu 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Trieu?

Trieu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 698,000
5 of 3,488,451 births
Among boys only
1 in 361,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
483,603 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trieu 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 1984 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 483,603 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trieu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trieus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trieu was born before 1982 — so the typical Trieu is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Trieu 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 1981 (5)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,223
1981

Spellings of Trieu

Trieu is not the most common spelling — Trey is, with 30.8% against Trieu's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Trieu around the world

Where Trieu 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.

  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #1,824
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1995–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Trieu 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
#7,223
1981
Peak year
1981
5 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trieu

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

Sibling names for Trieu

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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