Tricia

Locally spelled Trisha in PH Philippines, IN India.

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.

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Tricia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Patti
• Ricky
• Payton
• Petra
• Teresa

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Tricia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Triçia, Trícia, Trîcîa

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Trícia

• Czech given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Triciã

• Croatian given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Philippines

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Trícia

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Tricia 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.

• In English, A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Noble

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• English: short form of PATRICIA .

  as a word

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.

• Tricia Leigh Fisherb. 1968USAmerican actress, singer
• Tricia Vesseyb. 1970USAmerican actress
• Tricia Helferb. 1974CACanadian actress (born 1974)

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

58 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What are other forms of the name Tricia?

In the etymology graph, Patricia, Pat and Patsy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Patrice.

Where does the name Tricia come from?

Shortened form of Patricia. Variant: Trisha. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.

Is Tricia a male or female name?

Tricia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).

What does the name Tricia mean?

Recorded meaning: Shortened form of Patricia.

Which countries have the most people named Tricia?

In the United States, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Tricia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tricia. After it come India, Philippines, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Tricia most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tricia is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Tricia?

In the United States, the national register counted 38,252 people named Tricia in 2020, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.

How common is Tricia compared with other names?

In the United States, Tricia is the 464th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.