Trini

Where Trini comes from

From a clipping of Katrina + -i (diminutive suffix).
— Wiktionary's entry for Trini
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,540 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Peak, #2,272
    28 babies named Trini — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,362.
  4. 1998
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Katrina.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.