Trigger
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- TRIG-er
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Trigger is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “lever that sets something off”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Trigger mean?
English: English word trigger, from Dutch trekker 'puller'
“lever that sets something off”
From the English word, borrowed from Dutch trekker 'puller'; Trigger was also cowboy star Roy Rogers's famous horse.
Is Trigger a girl's or a boy's name?
Trigger is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Trigger in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,710among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 46% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Trigger, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2014, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had the fewest boys named Trigger since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Trigger in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Trigger in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,557 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,851 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,590 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,941 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,056 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,135 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,461 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,857 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,507 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,353 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,796 |
Names like Trigger
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Trigger: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/trigger, updated 20 October 2026.