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The first name 
Tricia

Tricia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Tricia – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Tricia in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Tricia in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Tricia by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Tricia ranks at #6,870. That means there are 6,869 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 37,168 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Tricia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Tricia

Tricia -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Tricia may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Tricia is apparently especially popular in Wisconsin. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 2,029 women in Wisconsin is called Tricia. In total, that’s 1,499 women who feel addressed when the name Tricia is shouted loudly across Wisconsin and who ensure that their name makes it to #369 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Tricia as the answer a total of 37,168 times. This places Tricia at #616 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Tricia as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Tricia has 6 letters 
and begins with a T

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.

With six letters, the name Tricia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Tricia

If your name is Tricia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Tricia

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tricia, you can simply say:

Tiger

Rocket

Igloo

Cat

Igloo

Apple

This is how the name Tricia is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Tricia in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Tricia

Tricia

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Tricia

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Tricia is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

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C
I
A

Have you ever waved the name Tricia

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

T
R
I
C
I
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tricia sounds like this: