Meaning not yet researched.
Tricia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #109 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #109 in 1971; #8,819 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tricia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,819 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #109.
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Tricia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #109 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 3,473 (1971).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Tricia, making it the 8,819th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #109, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,473. For comparison, it was #8,905 in 2015 and #1,762 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tricia in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 10 babies. In all, 40,222 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 20,581 babies named Tricia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US girls were named Tricia; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Trisha (40,355 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Trecia, Tresia and Trisia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Trish.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Trecia (691), Tresia (492), Trisia (52), Trecie (22), Triscia (19).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Tricia is listed as a nickname for Patricia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,819 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,344 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,467 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,477 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,371 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,997 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,736 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,072 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,796 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,905 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,191 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,819 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,435 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,318 | — | — |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,765 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,943 | — | — |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,789 | — | — |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1998 | 142 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1997 | 121 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1996 | 155 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1995 | 184 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1994 | 250 | #808 | — | — |
| 1993 | 287 | #733 | — | — |
| 1992 | 341 | #657 | — | — |
| 1991 | 386 | #592 | — | — |
| 1990 | 494 | #495 | — | — |
| 1989 | 525 | #465 | — | — |
| 1988 | 604 | #398 | — | — |
| 1987 | 640 | #368 | — | — |
| 1986 | 650 | #365 | — | — |
| 1985 | 652 | #363 | — | — |
| 1984 | 685 | #338 | 5 | #7,265 |
| 1983 | 636 | #357 | — | — |
| 1982 | 746 | #326 | — | — |
| 1981 | 941 | #264 | 7 | #5,439 |
| 1980 | 1,009 | #256 | 7 | #5,487 |
| 1979 | 1,209 | #215 | 6 | #6,009 |
| 1978 | 1,248 | #207 | 6 | #5,723 |
| 1977 | 1,259 | #204 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,429 | #179 | 7 | #4,901 |
| 1975 | 1,804 | #148 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,968 | #143 | 8 | #4,160 |
| 1973 | 2,386 | #123 | 6 | #5,055 |
| 1972 | 2,612 | #120 | 7 | #4,409 |
| 1971 | 3,473 | #109 | 16 | #2,461 |
| 1970 | 3,132 | #124 | 5 | #5,386 |
| 1969 | 2,981 | #119 | 8 | #3,576 |
| 1968 | 924 | #285 | — | — |
| 1967 | 529 | #396 | — | — |
| 1966 | 495 | #422 | — | — |
| 1965 | 554 | #395 | — | — |
| 1964 | 651 | #375 | — | — |
| 1963 | 479 | #444 | — | — |
| 1962 | 307 | #559 | — | — |
| 1961 | 307 | #573 | — | — |
| 1960 | 342 | #523 | — | — |
| 1959 | 268 | #610 | — | — |
| 1958 | 231 | #653 | — | — |
| 1957 | 223 | #660 | — | — |
| 1956 | 170 | #747 | — | — |
| 1955 | 144 | #807 | — | — |
| 1954 | 160 | #732 | — | — |
| 1953 | 137 | #786 | — | — |
| 1952 | 71 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,654 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,307 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,904 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).