Tri
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: three
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/trˈi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 631(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 17K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 30K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 631 (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to smear; to daub
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tri is read(measured from records)
Tri is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian59%
three
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese29%
to smear; to daub
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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
- English7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tri in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tri 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #16 | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 631 | listed | Tri | 240 |
| US United States | — | 5,535 | 1 in 60K | 5.2K | Tri | 110 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Tri | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Tri | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Tri | 24 |
| SG Singapore | #608 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tri | 27 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Tri | 10 |
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 id-github-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Tri is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
. ®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 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.
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
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 352 | #3,671 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 7 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tri mean?
- In Indonesian, three
- Where does the name Tri come from?
- to smear; to daub Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tri?
- A machine transcription gives /trˈi/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- 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.
- In which country does Tri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 423 thousand people named Tri in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tri.
- How common is the name Tri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,535 people named Tri in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Tri compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Tri is the 16th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/triThe 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, “Tri” — the 16th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.