Tris

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How to Pronounce Tris

Pronounced TRISS /ˈtrɪs/Medium

Meaning: Tris is a short form, historically clipped from Beatrice (Latin, 'she who brings happiness') or Tristan. As a stand-alone girl's name it owes its recent visibility to Beatrice 'Tris' Prior, the heroine of Veronica Roth's Divergent series. Its meaning is inherited from those parent names rather than fixed on its own.Low

In 30 seconds: Tris is a short form of Beatrice, made popular on its own by the Divergent heroine Tris Prior. It peaked around 2015 (said TRISS).

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MeaningTris is a short form, historically clipped from Beatrice (Latin, 'she who brings happiness') or Tristan. As a stand-alone girl's name it owes its recent visibility to Beatrice 'Tris' Prior, the heroine of Veronica Roth's Divergent series. Its meaning is inherited from those parent names rather than fixed on its own.

U.S. rank (2018)#15532 ↘ Falling

2018 U.S. births6 girls (0.00% of U.S. girls)

Peak year2015

Total births (all-time)≈ 132

Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data

U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.

SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.

History & Origin

Tris began as a clipped form of Beatrice, and sometimes Tristan, but its life as a birth name is tied to fiction. In Veronica Roth's Divergent, Beatrice Prior shortens her name to Tris, and the books and films of the early 2010s turned that spare, one-syllable name into a choice parents made on its own.

Records show Tris appearing in tiny numbers as far back as the 1950s, then rising to its modest 2015 peak of only about fourteen girls a year with the Divergent wave. A girl named Tris in that peak is barely into her teens today, her name a marker of that fantasy-fiction moment.

Did you know? Tris jumped as a first name in the early 2010s alongside the Divergent films, whose heroine Beatrice Prior renames herself simply Tris.

Overall data confidence 40%

References - Tris — Short form of Beatrice/Tristan; Divergent heroine Tris Prior; peaked 2015.

Variations

BeatriceTrishTrishaTrissa

Nicknames

TrissyBea

Famous Bearers

★Tris Prior (fictional)
Heroine of Veronica Roth's Divergent novels, born Beatrice Prior, who renames herself Tris.

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Frequently Asked

What does the name Tris mean?

It is a short form of Beatrice ('she who brings happiness') or Tristan, best known from the Divergent heroine Tris Prior; its meaning is inherited from those parents.

How do you pronounce Tris?

It is said TRISS /ˈtrɪs/ - one syllable, rhyming with 'miss.'

Is Tris a boy or girl name?

Here Tris is used as a girl's name, though it can shorten the boy's name Tristan too.

How popular is Tris?

It was always rare, given to only about fourteen girls a year at its peak in the mid twenty-tens, riding the Divergent moment.