Trifon

Trifon or Trifón (Russian: Трифон) is a given name derived from the Ancient Greek: Τρύφων, romanized: Tryphon, lit. 'one who lives in luxury'.^[1] An archaic transliteration from Greek is Trufon. It is used by Russians and other peoples of East Orthodox denomination. There is also a surname variant of the word.

In Finnic languages, a variant is Triihpo, which appeared as a result of an f → hp change.^[2] Another variant of the word is Ruippo, a surname which was used in Southern Karelia and Eastern Savo before World War II.^[3] Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Metropolitan Trifon (1861–1934), hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
• Trifon Datsinski (born 1953), Bulgarian equestrian
• Trifón Gómez (1889–1955), Spanish politician
• Trifon Ivanov (1965–2016), Bulgarian football player
• Trifon Korobeynikov (16th-century), Moscow merchant and traveller
• Trifon Shevaldin (1888–1954), Soviet military officer

Surname

• Nicolas Trifon (1949–2023), Romanian-born academic, editor and linguist in France

See also

• All pages with titles containing Trifon
• Trifon Zarezan, Bulgarian custom in honour of Saint Tryphon
• Tryphon (disambiguation), a number of people of the name
• Saint Tryphon (disambiguation), several saints
• Saint-Triphon