Given name & surname
Tri
Tri is a surname from Vietnamese. It is used in English and Indonesian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 666
- 666 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,535 as a first name in 2020; 615 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tri’s family of names
Tri as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Korean form 삼.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tri
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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