Trinidad

Where Trinidad comes from

Trinidad hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,050 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1922
    Peak, #485
    161 babies named Trinidad — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1923
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #905.
  4. 1962
    Trinidad Jiménez born
    Spanish politician and diplomat
  5. 1962
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  6. 1987
    Trinidad James born
    American rapper from Georgia
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Trinidad Jiménez · Spanish politician and diplomat, born 1962
  • Trinidad James · American rapper from Georgia, born 1987
  • Trinidad Silva · Native Mexican-American character actor, 1950–1988
  • Trinidad Morgades Besari · Equatorial Guinean politician, 1931–2019
  • Trinidad Arroyo · Spanish ophthalmologist, 1872–1959

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.