How rare is the name Tristen?

20,670 people in the United States have the first name Tristen, about 1 in 14,612. It ranks #1,570 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TRISTEN

#1,570

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
20,670
About
1 in 14,612
This common or more
75.7%
Who bears it

Of the 20,670 people named Tristen, 62.7% reported their origin as White, 14.7% as Black and 11.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 82.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tristen peaked in 1996, when 1,478 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19682025
Peak year
1996
Births that year
1,478
In 2025*
121 ▼92%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 25,554 babies have been given the name since 1968. 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.

Tristen by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #593. The largest share of babies named Tristen, 67.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#12,24320
1970s#6,024166
1980s#2,235958
1990s#7796,467
2000s#59310,867
2010s#1,0056,023
2020s#2,4371,053
Generation X 1965–800.8%
Millennials 1981–9615.1%
Generation Z 1997–1267.4%
2013 and later16.6%

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 Tristen is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tristen has been most common in Alaska (3.4×), Montana (2.3×), and Nevada (2.2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.18×).

22,085 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 Tristen

#1,568 Paxton · 20,759#1,569 Zachariah · 20,718#1,571 Mai · 20,650#1,572 Alton · 20,582

Spelled almost the same

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

#515 Tristan · 109,402#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

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