Given name & surname
Trifon
Trifon is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Albanian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Trifon developed from Τρύφων.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Trifon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1973. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 133 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.
Trifon’s family of names
Trifon developed from the Ancient Greek form Τρύφων. In Ukrainian usage, Trifon is a transliteration of Трифон. In Greek usage, Trifon as a surname is a transliteration of Τρίφων.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
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 Trifon
- Trifon IvanovBulgarian footballer (1965-2016)
- Trifon KorobeynikovRussian businessman and traveller1600–1594
- Trifon GrekovMacedonian emigrant political activist1893–1973
- Tryfon TzanetisGreek footballer (1918-1998)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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