Meaning not yet researched.
Tristan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,103 in 2025. Its best rank was #68 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #68 in 1996; #309 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Tristan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#309 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #68.
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Tristan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,103 boys in 2025. Peak: #68 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 5,659 (2008).
In 2025, 1,103 US boys were named Tristan, making it the 309th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #267 in 2024. That is 199 fewer than the 1,302 boys named Tristan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #68, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5,659, in 2008. For comparison, it was #101 in 2015 and #3,303 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tristan in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 5 babies. In all, 130,794 US babies have been given the name, 5.0% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 45,278 babies named Tristan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,087 US boys were named Tristan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,639. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,549 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tristan ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #200 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tristen (25,554 babies since 1880), Trystan (5,169 babies since 1880), Tristin (12,612 babies since 1880) and Triston (11,876 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tristain, Trystyn and Tristine are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tris.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Tristain (375), Trystyn (297), Tristine (206), Tris (191), Trestin (189), Trystian (167), Tresten (134), Trestan (129), Tristram (114), Tristynn (62), Tristion (44), Trestyn (33), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 16 | #200 | #70 |
| Delaware | 6 | #202 | #98 |
| South Carolina | 26 | #221 | #68 |
| Florida | 88 | #238 | #84 |
| Maryland | 24 | #240 | #92 |
| Georgia | 51 | #247 | #70 |
| Virginia | 35 | #250 | #72 |
| Louisiana | 21 | #252 | #87 |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | #259 | #91 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #262 | #114 |
| North Carolina | 46 | #269 | #82 |
| California | 136 | #275 | #150 |
| Idaho | 10 | #276 | #121 |
| Alabama | 20 | #286 | #88 |
| Montana | 5 | #290 | #82 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #294 | #83 |
| New York | 64 | #296 | #103 |
| Washington | 25 | #308 | #107 |
| Arizona | 25 | #318 | #147 |
| Texas | 114 | #331 | #122 |
| New Jersey | 26 | #334 | #107 |
| Indiana | 23 | #337 | #158 |
| Michigan | 27 | #338 | #115 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #343 | #113 |
| Nevada | 9 | #361 | #92 |
| Illinois | 30 | #361 | #132 |
| Colorado | 17 | #383 | #98 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #386 | #92 |
| Missouri | 16 | #418 | #111 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #418 | #163 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #423 | #94 |
| Kansas | 9 | #427 | #146 |
| Utah | 11 | #438 | #110 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #441 | #128 |
| Ohio | 24 | #453 | #96 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #478 | #129 |
| Oregon | 6 | #597 | #129 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #615 | #104 |
| Iowa | 5 | #656 | #121 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,706 | 1,103 | #309 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,903 | 1,302 | #267 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,114 | 1,382 | #253 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,293 | 1,600 | #226 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,163 | 1,825 | #208 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,734 | 2,124 | #182 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,030 | 2,573 | #151 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,842 | 3,230 | #123 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,242 | 3,309 | #121 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,536 | 3,639 | #108 |
| 2015 | 80 | #2,339 | 3,927 | #101 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,841 | 3,927 | #98 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,405 | 4,016 | #96 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,188 | 4,441 | #88 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,871 | 4,732 | #87 |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,027 | 4,899 | #84 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,571 | 5,350 | #80 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,493 | 5,659 | #81 |
| 2007 | 194 | #1,273 | 5,340 | #87 |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,249 | 5,414 | #86 |
| 2005 | 186 | #1,226 | 3,591 | #113 |
| 2004 | 209 | #1,098 | 3,481 | #115 |
| 2003 | 228 | #1,017 | 3,634 | #112 |
| 2002 | 263 | #872 | 3,725 | #103 |
| 2001 | 197 | #1,083 | 3,575 | #108 |
| 2000 | 206 | #1,027 | 3,531 | #105 |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,052 | 3,845 | #99 |
| 1998 | 251 | #851 | 4,169 | #92 |
| 1997 | 251 | #827 | 4,197 | #92 |
| 1996 | 386 | #592 | 5,458 | #68 |
| 1995 | 284 | #721 | 3,088 | #121 |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,593 | 492 | #452 |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,470 | 567 | #409 |
| 1992 | 116 | #1,416 | 622 | #372 |
| 1991 | 116 | #1,391 | 724 | #337 |
| 1990 | 140 | #1,212 | 753 | #330 |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,194 | 764 | #312 |
| 1988 | 141 | #1,108 | 803 | #289 |
| 1987 | 139 | #1,097 | 934 | #246 |
| 1986 | 172 | #928 | 923 | #244 |
| 1985 | 178 | #897 | 1,061 | #222 |
| 1984 | 163 | #917 | 873 | #251 |
| 1983 | 169 | #897 | 854 | #248 |
| 1982 | 152 | #980 | 762 | #275 |
| 1981 | 95 | #1,327 | 400 | #416 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,339 | 208 | #604 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,619 | 167 | #663 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,389 | 132 | #736 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,661 | 118 | #790 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,290 | 110 | #795 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,228 | 113 | #782 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,391 | 95 | #831 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,115 | 72 | #956 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,518 | 77 | #916 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,154 | 90 | #863 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,198 | 63 | #1,030 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,765 | 50 | #1,108 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,445 | 49 | #1,066 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,325 | 29 | #1,445 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,246 | 34 | #1,326 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,940 | 22 | #1,719 |
| 1964 | — | — | 17 | #2,032 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,587 | 26 | #1,582 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,511 | 22 | #1,753 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,403 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,858 |
| 1959 | — | — | 12 | #2,522 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,911 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,533 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,163 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,954 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,326 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,889 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,369 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,339 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,303 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,169 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,772 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,981 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).