Trinh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: virgin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɕi˨˨ɲ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trinh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 15K
- USUnited States1 in 22K
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
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 285 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Trịnh in VN Vietnam, ID Indonesia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
virgin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trinh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 285 | listed | Trịnh | 6 |
| US United States | — | 15,392 | 1 in 22K | 18K | Trinh | 346 |
| AO Angola | #264 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Trinh | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Trịnh | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Trinh | 128 |
| AU Australia | #874 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Trinh | 154 |
| NO Norway | — | 462 | 1 in 12K | 462 | — | 13 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Trinh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: trinh, ngay thẳng/trinh chính; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Điện Bàn công.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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)
- Trịnh Trángb. 1577VNSecond Trịnh lord
- Trịnh Cănb. 1633VN4th Trịnh lord
- Trịnh Cươngb. 1686VN5th Trịnh Lord
- Trịnh Công Sơnb. 1939VNVietnamese singer, songwriter (1939-2001)
- Trịnh Xuân Thuậnb. 1948VNVietnamese-American astrophysicist
- Ching Haib. 1950VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese spiritual teacher
- Eugene H. Trinhb. 1950VNVietnamese-American astronaut
- Trinh T. Minh-hab. 1952VNVietnamese-US American post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker
- Coralie Trinh Thib. 1976FRFrench pornographic actress
- François Trinh-Ducb. 1986FRFrench rugby union player
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 41 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Trinh?
- A machine transcription gives /tɕi˨˨ɲ/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- What does the name Trinh mean, and where does it come from?
- virgin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Trinh?
- In the etymology graph, Jong and Jeong are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Trinh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 347 thousand people named Trinh in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trịnh.
- How common is the name Trinh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,392 people named Trinh in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Trinh compared with other names?
- In Angola, Trinh is the 264th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trinhThe 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, “Trinh” — the 264th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.