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Trish vs Trisha

American parents have registered 40,355 Trishas since 1880, against 3,075 Trishes. Trisha is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trish against Trisha, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trish Trisha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Trisha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1934 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1954, when Trish had 26 and Trisha had 42.

Side by side

  Trish Trisha
Total US births 3,07540,355
Most in one year 2291,777
Babies in 2025 under 544
Estimated living today 2,90038,000
Median age today 4744
Peak year 19771979
Best rank 684th girls159th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,459th
First recorded 19461934
Girls / boys 3,075 / 040,302 / 53

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Trishes alive today are over 47; half the Trishas are over 44. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Trish Trisha
England and Wales 7510
France 550

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Trish and Trisha.