Trầy
given name · Latin script
Trầy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English treye, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru.
- USUnited States1 in 149K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 149K (inferred from the name graph)
2,233 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tray in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishtreye(measured from records)
- Old Englishtrēġ“wooden board“wooden board, tray”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*trauwi(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*trawją“wooden vessel”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*drewo-“tree; wood”(measured from records)
From Middle English treye, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δρουίτη (drouítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Trầy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,233 | 1 in 149K | 2.1K | Tray | 14 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 161 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | — | 46 | — | 1 |
2,233 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trầy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English treye, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Trầy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Trầy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tray.
- Where is Trầy most common?
- Trầy is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 149 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Trầy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,233 people named Trầy in 2020, about 1 in 149 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tr%E1%BA%A7yThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Trầy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.