Girls' name · peaked in 1979

Trisha name popularity since 1925

40,355 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Trisha. Half of them were born in 1980 or earlier, so the typical Trisha is about 46 years old in 2026. Trisha peaked in 1979 as the #159 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 40,355; Named Trisha, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1979; #159 for girls that year
Typical age: About 46; Median birth year 1980
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #3,511 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 40,302 girls · 53 boys
Most popular in: Hawaii; 2.55× its national share

Peak year is the year Trisha 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.

Trisha births per year, 1925–2025

1979 was the biggest year for Trisha both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1960 and 1965, Trisha became 8.4× more common, from 1 in 19,600 baby girls to 1 in 2,330.
Steepest fall: Between 1993 and 1998, its share of baby girls fell by 59%, from 1 in 2,630 to 1 in 6,470.

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

Decade by decade

Babies named Trisha 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	5	0	Under 5
1940s	229	0	#1,174
1950s	567	0	#1,272
1960s	5,494	0	#326
1970s	12,544	19	#175
1980s	12,807	34	#222
1990s	5,319	0	#559
2000s	2,036	0	#1,077
2010s	1,016	0	#2,011
2020–25	285	0	#3,511

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

45.3% of babies named Trisha from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:

Where Trisha is most popular

The index compares Trisha'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 Trisha.

State	Index	Babies
Hawaii	2.55×	300
Utah	2.31×	739
Iowa	2.18×	1,043
Oregon	2.01×	707
Wisconsin	1.81×	1,342

Names with a similar story

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

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Trisha (1979).

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