How rare is the name Tristian?

6,351 people in the United States have the first name Tristian, about 1 in 47,557. It ranks #3,338 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TRISTIAN

#3,338

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,351
About
1 in 47,557
This common or more
82.2%
Who bears it

Of the 6,351 people named Tristian, 38.7% reported their origin as White, 35.3% as Black and 15.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 91.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tristian peaked in 2010, when 373 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19772025
Peak year
2010
Births that year
373
In 2025*
115 ▼69%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 8,601 babies have been given the name since 1977. 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.

Tristian by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,596. The largest share of babies named Tristian, 55.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#22,3077
1980s#3,456494
1990s#1,9231,665
2000s#1,5962,832
2010s#1,7542,811
2020s#2,937792
Generation X 1965–800.1%
Millennials 1981–9615.3%
Generation Z 1997–1255.6%
2013 and later29%

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 Tristian is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tristian has been most common in Georgia (2.4×), Mississippi (2.2×), and Texas (2.2×), and least common in Minnesota (0.31×).

6,155 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.

Exactly as common as Tristian

1 other first name also has 6,351 people.

#3,338 Ashtyn · 6,351

Either side of Tristian

#3,337 Danae · 6,353#3,338 Ashtyn · 6,351#3,340 Dick · 6,350#3,340 Veronika · 6,350

Spelled almost the same

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

#515 Tristan · 109,402#1,570 Tristen · 20,670#2,321 Trista · 11,025#2,408 Tristin · 10,333#2,561 Triston · 9,443#4,317 Trystan · 4,388#5,159 Tristyn · 3,385#12,848 Trystin · 954

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