Given name & surname
Trinidad
“trinity”
Trinidad is a feminine given name. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1884. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Trinidad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 9,720
- 5,366 boys · 4,354 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 392 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #9,630 for boys · #13,086 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −10%
- Easing
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 68% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,630 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 15.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 161 in 1922. It also appeared in 7 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,227 as a first name in 2020; 13,705 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.
Trinidad’s family of names
Trinidad has a short form in Trini. Trinidad shares a linguistic root with Trindade. In Spanish usage, Trinidad has a conventional equivalent in the English form Trinity.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Trinidad
- Trini LopezAmerican singer and musician (1937–2020)
- Trinidad JiménezSpanish politician and diplomatborn 1962
- Trinidad JamesAmerican rapper from Georgiaborn 1987
- Trinidad Morgades BesariEquatorial Guinean politician1931–2019
- Trinidad SilvaNative Mexican-American character actor (1950-1988)
- Trinidad ArroyoSpanish ophthalmologist (1872–1959)
- Trinidad Pardo de TaveraFilipino historian (1857-1925)
- Trinidad María EnríquezPeruvian education and women's rights activist1846–1891
- Trinidad RomeroAmerican politician (1835-1918)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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