Trí
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Han-Viet “wisdom, intelligence”; cited here as one of the Confucian virtues used in sibling names
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ci˨˦/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 60K
- SESweden1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tri in VN Vietnam, 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)
Han-Viet “wisdom, intelligence”; cited here as one of the Confucian virtues used in sibling names.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trí 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.
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: the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Trí is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, wisdom; knowledge; intelligence
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, three
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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
- Zhu Zhinot in their usual namelived in Ming dynasty (祝致)
- Wang Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 226581
- Fei Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 213771
- Wang Zhinot in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 38106)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2019 | 1 | — |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trí mean, and where does it come from?
- Han-Viet “wisdom, intelligence”; cited here as one of the Confucian virtues used in sibling names. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Trí?
- A machine transcription gives /ci˨˦/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Trí a male or female name?
- Trí 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 are other forms of the name Trí?
- In the etymology graph, Zhi is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Trí have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Trí in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tri.
- How common is the name Trí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,535 people named Trí in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Trí compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Trí is the 73rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Trí?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tr%C3%ADThe 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, “Trí” — the 73rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.