Given name
Tryphena
“one who is dainty; delicate”
Tryphena is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “one who is dainty; delicate.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “one who is dainty; delicate.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Τρύφαινα, from Ancient Greek τρῠφή (“softness, daintiness”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tryphena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 0 boys · 110 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 8 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 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 249 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.
Tryphena’s family of names
In English usage, Tryphena has a diminutive in PHENY. Tryphena has a related form in Injyna. Tryphena has a related form in Irifena.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 20
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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