Tri
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tri is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Vietnamese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: to smear; to daub.
- IDIndonesia1 in 381◐
- SGSingapore1 in 9.4K
- MYMalaysia1 in 25K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.5K ●
- Sources
- 226 ●
- 1 in 29K ◐
across 8 countries
42K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
to smear; to daub
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #38 | 238,544 | 35K rec. | — | listed | Tri | 226 |
| US United States | — | 5,183 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Tri | 101 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,652 | 635 rec. | — | — | Tri | 26 |
| SG Singapore | #471 | 1,145 | 627 rec. | — | — | Tri | 28 |
| PH Philippines | — | 849 | 265 rec. | — | — | Tri | 12 |
| SV El Salvador | — | 551 | 537 rec. | — | — | Tri | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | 301 | 22 rec. | — | — | Tri | 14 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 283 | 284 rec. | — | — | Tri | 7 |
| IN India | — | 217 | 190 rec. | — | 55 | Tri | 24 |
| CL Chile | — | 187 | 178 rec. | — | — | Tri | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 177 | 165 rec. | — | — | Tri | 20 |
| BR Brazil | — | 154 | 159 rec. | — | 44 | Tri | 32 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian244K54%
- Vietnamese147K32%
- English32K7%
- 7.7K2%
- Spanish4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 244,368 | 54% |
| Vietnamese | 146,766 | 32% |
| English | 31,973 | 7% |
| 7,724 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 4,013 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tri is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, three
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
. ®w Tr¡ B là biết. Không có biểu hiện A. Nghĩa gốc của Ør là biết biểu hiện trong: /r¡ đâm. nghĩa
as a nameMẹo giải nghĩa từ Hán Việt và chữa lỗi chính tả
In Vietnamese, Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Thiệu Hóa quận vương, Gia Long’s 9th son.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Dutch, synonym for trichloorethyleen, a chemical solvent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, three; (pre-2012) alternative form of tre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 22 |
| 1983 | 18 |
| 1984 | 28 |
| 1985 | 19 |
| 1986 | 18 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 17 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 21 |
| 1992 | 15 |
| 1993 | 23 |
| 1994 | 19 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 20 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2009 | 19 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 14 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1976–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zhang Zhib. 1150not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 106563
- Nguyễn Tri Phươngb. 1800VNVietnamese general
- Nguyễn Gia Tríb. 1908VNVietnamese painter (1908–1993)
- Đỗ Cao Tríb. 1929VNSouth Vietnamese commander (1929–1971)
- Dustin Nguyễnb. 1962USnot in their usual nameVietnamese-American actor and filmmaker
- Johnny Tri Nguyenb. 1974USVietnamese-American actor and stuntman
- Tri Kusharyantob. 1974IDbadminton player
- Ester Nurumi Tri Wardoyob. 2004IDIndonesian badminton player
- Zhu Zhinot in their usual namelived in Ming dynasty (祝致)
- Wang Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 226581
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.2K | #3,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 615 | #38,716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 576 | #38,439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 495 | #41,448 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 352 | #3,671 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 188 | #3,611 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 178 | #5,199 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 149 | #6,499 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 55 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 55 | #41,815 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 44 | #7,239 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 254 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tri?
- We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Tri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tri have the most bearers?
- Tri is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled tri.
- How common is Tri compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Tri is the 38th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
- Is Tri a male or female name?
- Tri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tri mean?
- Recorded meaning: to smear; to daub
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tri” — the 38th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.