# Tricia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tricia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈtɹɪʃə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Trisha |
| US babies named this | 40,222 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 88 / 40,134 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 26, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 24 | 5,765 |
| 2011 | 21 | 6,318 |
| 2012 | 17 | 7,435 |
| 2013 | 23 | 5,819 |
| 2014 | 21 | 6,191 |
| 2015 | 13 | 8,905 |
| 2016 | 10 | 10,796 |
| 2017 | 17 | 7,072 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,736 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6,997 |
| 2020 | 13 | 8,371 |
| 2021 | 5 | 17,477 |
| 2022 | 7 | 13,467 |
| 2023 | 7 | 13,344 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,819 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 8 | 3,576 |
| 1970 | 5 | 5,386 |
| 1971 | 16 | 2,461 |
| 1972 | 7 | 4,409 |
| 1973 | 6 | 5,055 |
| 1974 | 8 | 4,160 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,901 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,723 |
| 1979 | 6 | 6,009 |
| 1980 | 7 | 5,487 |
| 1981 | 7 | 5,439 |
| 1984 | 5 | 7,265 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | 2,738 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |

## People named Tricia

- Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress (born 1974)
- Tricia Vessey, American actress
- Tricia O'Neil, American actress (b. 1945)
- Tricia Leigh Fisher, American actress, singer
- Tricia Sullivan, American writer
- Tricia Flores, Belizean track and field athlete
- Tricia Cast, American actress
- Tricia O'Kelley, American actress
- Tricia Nixon Cox, First daughter of Richard Nixon
- Tricia Cooke, American film editor, film producer and screenwriter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.