How rare is the name Tristan?

109,402 people in the United States have the first name Tristan, about 1 in 2,761. It ranks #515 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TRISTAN

#515

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
109,402
About
1 in 2,761
This common or more
59%
Who bears it

Of the 109,402 people named Tristan, 61.7% reported their origin as White, 13.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 11.9% as Black. 94.7% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tristan peaked in 1996, when 5,844 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19462025
Peak year
1996
Births that year
5,844
In 2025*
1,125 ▼81%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 130,794 babies have been given the name since 1946. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tristan by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #168. The largest share of babies named Tristan, 55.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#9,41819
1950s#6,20189
1960s#3,181349
1970s#1,6461,344
1980s#5388,970
1990s#26125,858
2000s#16845,278
2010s#17039,391
2020s#4309,496
Baby boom 1946–640.2%
Generation X 1965–801.4%
Millennials 1981–9616.6%
Generation Z 1997–1255.5%
2013 and later26.4%

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 Tristan is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tristan has been most common in Alaska (3.2×), Nevada (2.6×), and Idaho (1.8×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.44×).

126,477 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 Tristan

#513 Don · 109,818#514 Gabriella · 109,553#516 Eddie · 109,400#517 Cecilia · 109,389

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,570 Tristen · 20,670#2,321 Trista · 11,025#2,408 Tristin · 10,333#2,561 Triston · 9,443#3,338 Tristian · 6,351#4,317 Trystan · 4,388#5,159 Tristyn · 3,385#9,601 Trysten · 1,437

Also a last name

As a last name, Tristan ranks #7,837 of 156,621, with 4,058 people. See Tristan as a last name

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