Trishna

Girls' name

Thirst, desire

Trishna has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 2009, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Trishna, 2014

1 in 741,000

Trishna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trishna: meaning, origin, and history

Thirst, desire

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trishna means

Trishna means “thirst, desire”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Trishna is used in Hindi.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈt̪ɾɪʂ.ɳɑː/ for Trishna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Trishna between 1990 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2009; its best national rank was #9,345 in 2009.

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.

How common is Trishna?

Trishna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trishna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trishna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trishnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trishna was born before 2006 — so the typical Trishna is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Trishna 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (13)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,345
2009

Spellings of Trishna

Trishna is not the most common spelling — Trisha is, with 34.5% against Trishna's 0.08%.

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.

Trishna around the world

Where Trishna 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2008
    #4,524
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2009–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Trishna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,345
2009
Peak year
2009
13 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trishna

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

Sibling names for Trishna

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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