How rare is the name Trista?

11,025 people in the United States have the first name Trista, about 1 in 27,395. It ranks #2,321 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TRISTA

#2,321

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,025
About
1 in 27,395
This common or more
79.4%
Who bears it

Of the 11,025 people named Trista, 82.5% reported their origin as White, 5% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.9% as two or more races. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Trista peaked in 1984, when 1,215 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19602024
Peak year
1984
Births that year
1,215
In 2024
7 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,464 babies have been given the name since 1960. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Trista by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #814. The largest share of babies named Trista, 50.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#4,636181
1970s#1,3641,859
1980s#8144,972
1990s#1,7431,929
2000s#1,5442,947
2010s#5,301548
2020s#23,72728
Baby boom 1946–640.2%
Generation X 1965–8017.6%
Millennials 1981–9650.2%
Generation Z 1997–1229.9%
2013 and later2.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Trista is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Trista has been most common in Wyoming (3.4×), North Dakota (2.7×), and Minnesota (2.6×), and least common in New Jersey (0.16×).

9,802 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Trista

#2,319 Cleo · 11,057#2,320 Gino · 11,050#2,322 Moriah · 11,017#2,323 Monty · 10,994

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Trista, most common first.

#515 Tristan · 109,402#27,528 Trysta · 332#47,181 Tristy · 139#52,287 Tristi · 108

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