Given name
Tricia
“of noble descent”
In English use, Tricia is a short form of Patricia. In English use, Patricia carries the interpretation “of noble descent.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Tricia is a short form of Patricia. In English use, Patricia carries the interpretation “of noble descent.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tricia is a diminutive of Patricia. Patricia comes from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English use, Tricia is used as a shortened form of Patricia.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1939. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tricia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40,222
- 88 boys · 40,134 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 3,489 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,819 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −57%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,819 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 3,473 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 38,252 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tricia’s family of names
In English usage, Tricia is a diminutive of Patricia. Tricia has a related form in Trisha. Tricia is a short form of Patricia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tricia
- Tricia HelferCanadian actress (born 1974)
- Tricia SmithCanadian rowerborn 1957
- Tricia O'NeilAmerican actress (b. 1945)
- Tricia VesseyAmerican actressborn 1970
- Tricia Leigh FisherAmerican actress, singerborn 1968
- Tricia FloresBelizean track and field athleteborn 1979
- Tricia SullivanAmerican writerborn 1968
- Tricia MarwickScottish politician (born 1953)
- Tricia CastAmerican actressborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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