Tripp
- Pronunciation
- [Tripp]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Traveler
- Origin
- English
About the Name Tripp
Tripp descends from the Old English tripp meaning "a step" or "a journey" — referring originally to a brisk-stepping traveler or messenger. The English word "trip" derives from the same root. Tripp has been used in American naming since the 19th century, particularly in Southern-American naming as a generational designation for the third son in a family (e.g., "Joseph III" being called Tripp, from "triple").
Notable bearers include American basketball player Tripp Crapo; American filmmaker Tripp Vinson; the contemporary American fictional Tripp Walsh of FX's The Bear 2022–present; and the iconic American 1990s film Tripp. The name has additional cultural anchoring through the iconic American 1995 film Tripping Forward.
Tripp's American climb is recent: the name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 2005 to the US top 300 boys' rank by 2018 and the top 300 since. The name has been driven primarily by Southern-American naming. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the surname-style sophistication, the in-built distinctive third-son register, and the compact one-syllable structure with the distinctive Tr-PP consonant rhythm. The name reads as distinctly contemporary American. Common nicknames are scarce since the name is already short — the rare Trippy and Trippsy each occasionally appear; the alternate spellings Tripp and Trip have their own SSA tracking. International variants are minimal since the name's first-name use is essentially American.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Tripp
US Popularity History (2008–2025)
Annual US births named Tripp by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2022 with 711 boys named Tripp (boy rank #437 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #522 for boys (572 US births). That's 85 places below its 2022 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Tripp Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Tripp the strongest states are Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montana | #176 | 50 |
| 2 | North Dakota | #188 | 31 |
| 3 | South Dakota | #201 | 52 |
| 4 | West Virginia | #256 | 53 |
| 5 | Arkansas | #276 | 125 |
| 6 | Nebraska | #297 | 86 |
| 7 | Iowa | #298 | 129 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | #306 | 153 |
| 9 | Kansas | #318 | 117 |
| 10 | Kentucky | #321 | 151 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #1,085 | 63 |
| 2 | Virginia | #775 | 63 |
| 3 | Washington | #759 | 72 |
| 4 | North Carolina | #712 | 113 |
| 5 | Arizona | #703 | 72 |
| 6 | Florida | #703 | 177 |
| 7 | South Carolina | #674 | 32 |
| 8 | Maryland | #653 | 63 |
| 9 | Michigan | #652 | 111 |
| 10 | Georgia | #629 | 145 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Tripp in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Tripp against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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