Tra
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: to haft; to sheathe
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʈa˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 408K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 12K
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
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tra is read(measured from records)
Tra is one spelling over 2 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.
- Vietnamese81%
to haft; to sheathe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tra 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 | #123 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Tra | 132 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 9.6K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 816 | 1 in 408K | 686 | Tra | 74 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Tra | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 644K | 6 | Tra | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 53 | 1 in 193K | 53 | — | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Tra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, trawa, a. thin, flat, smooth, soft; s. tratra. pr. 3302. a tra, slice, cut, thin broad piece cut off, oi yam (gd^ a wgatwa), of bread &c
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Czech, masculine singular present transgressive of třít
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Tirahi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, path in the forest, trail
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)
- Zha Jizuob. 1601CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer
- Zha Shibiaob. 1615not in their usual nameChinese painter (1615-1698)
- Zha Shenxingb. 1650CNnot in their usual nameQing dynasty poet
- Cha Chi Mingb. 1914CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong businessman
- Mu Danb. 1918CNnot in their usual nameChinese poet (1918-1977)
- Jin Yongb. 1924CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong writer (1924-2018)
- Zha Quanxingb. 1925CNnot in their usual nameChinese electrochemist (1925-2019)
- Laura Chab. 1949CNnot in their usual nameChinese businesswoman and politician
- Jianying Zhab. 1959CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American writer
- Hai Zib. 1964CNnot in their usual nameChinese poet
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 9.6K | #63 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 686 | #35,343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 490 | #43,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 287 | #64,750 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #52,250 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Tra come from?
- Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tra?
- A machine transcription gives /ʈa˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Tra a male or female name?
- Tra is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Tra mean?
- In Vietnamese, to haft; to sheathe
- In which country does Tra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Tra in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tra.
- How common is the name Tra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 816 people named Tra in 2020, about 1 in 408 thousand residents.
- How common is Tra compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Tra is the 123rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/traThe 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, “Tra” — the 123rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.