Girls' name · peaked in 1971

Tricia name popularity since 1925

40,222 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Tricia. Half of them were born in 1973 or earlier, so the typical Tricia is about 53 years old in 2026. Tricia peaked in 1971 as the #109 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 40,222; Named Tricia, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1971; #109 for girls that year
Typical age: About 53; Median birth year 1973
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #8,819 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 40,134 girls · 88 boys
Most popular in: Wisconsin; 2.02× its national share

Peak year is the year Tricia made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Tricia births per year, 1925–2025

1971 was the biggest year for Tricia both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1966 and 1971, Tricia became 7.1× more common, from 1 in 3,420 baby girls to 1 in 479.
Steepest fall: Between 1992 and 1997, its share of baby girls fell by 62%, from 1 in 5,410 to 1 in 14,400.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Tricia's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Tricia.

Decade by decade

Babies named Tricia in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	10	0	Under 5
1940s	227	0	#1,584
1950s	1,491	0	#807
1960s	7,569	8	#395
1970s	20,520	61	#148
1980s	7,088	19	#363
1990s	2,462	0	#1,013
2000s	545	0	#3,361
2010s	178	0	#8,905
2020–25	44	0	#8,819

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

67.3% of babies named Tricia from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:

Where Tricia is most popular

The index compares Tricia's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Tricia.

State	Index	Babies
Wisconsin	2.02×	1,499
Iowa	1.82×	872
Ohio	1.69×	2,928
Utah	1.53×	489
Indiana	1.50×	1,336

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Tricia's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Tricia.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Tricia (1971).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data