Trigger
#10,582 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Trigger has been given to 269 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #10,582 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Trigger, 2025
1 in 474,000
Trigger over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Trigger?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,582
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Trigger sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trigger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Triggers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Trigger was born before 2016 — so the typical Trigger is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 68.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 269
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 68.0% of all recorded uses (183).
Is Trigger 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
- −799
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,563
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,314
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.39×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 29.2%
- Peak was 2014 (24)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.6% average annual change
Spellings of Trigger
Trigger is not the most common spelling — Bridger is, with 81.9% against Trigger's 3.2%.
Where Trigger is used
Across 1910–2025, Trigger was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 919,923 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Trigger has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Trigger around the world
Where Trigger 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.
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Trigger by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Trigger
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Trigger
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.