Given name & surname
Trine
“one who is pure; virginal”
In Danish use, Trine is a short form of Catherine. One English interpretation is “one who is pure; virginal.” Its derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Danish use, Trine is a short form of Catherine. One English interpretation is “one who is pure; virginal.” Its derivation is not certain.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In Danish use, Trine is a short form of Katrine. An origin associated with Katrine is Irish Gaelic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Danish use, Trine is used as a shortened form of Katrine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Trine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 350
- 40 boys · 310 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 48 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 girls is 8 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 288 as a first name in 2020; 557 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.
Trine’s family of names
In Danish usage, Trine is a short form of Catherine. Trine has a related form in Trina. Trine is a short form of Katrine.
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 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Trine
- Trine HattestadNorwegian javelin throwerborn 1966
- Trine Dyrholmactress, singer, songwriterborn 1972
- Trine HaltvikNorwegian handball playerborn 1965
- Trine Skei GrandeNorwegian politicianborn 1969
- Trine BramsenDanish politicianborn 1981
- Trine ØstergaardDanish handball playerborn 1991
- Trine RønningNorwegian association football playerborn 1982
- Trine HansenDanish rowerborn 1973
- Trine SchmidtDanish racing cyclist, born 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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