Trine
Trine was last recorded in 1991, when 8 babies were given it; 350 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Trine mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Trine is “a female given name, short form of Katrine ( =Catherine)”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Trine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,210, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1921, the peak
Trine peaked in 1921, when 48 babies were given it (36 girls, #1,334 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | #10,210 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,056 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,878 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,815 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,221 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,977 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,388 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,943 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,118 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,778 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #7,583 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,816 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,518 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,241 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,530 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 6 | #3,960 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,352 | |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,255 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,210 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,056 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,641 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,514 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,893 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,771 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,177 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,908 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,314 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,218 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,367 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,245 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,550 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,129 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,104 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,678 | 10 | #2,996 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,334 | 12 | #2,615 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,163 | 7 | #3,785 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,777 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,545 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,357 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Trine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 350 Americans recorded as Trine, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Trine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trine, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Trine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 55 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 288 people named Trine (242 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Trine born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 154 | not ranked | 7.7× |
Where Trine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Trine is most over-represented in Texas: since 1916 it was given 7.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Trine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,631 babies since 1880, Trine is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 21 babies recorded by SSA was a Trine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Trine and names like it
- Compare Trine and TrinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sTrine peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trine since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Trine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Trine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Trine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.