Meaning not yet researched.
Tristen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #249 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #249 in 1996; #1,512 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Tristen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,512 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #249.
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Tristen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 boys in 2025. Peak: #249 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 1,188 (1996).
In 2025, 116 US boys were named Tristen, making it the 1,512th most common boys’ name of the year, down 75 places from #1,437 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 127 boys named Tristen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #249, reached in 1996. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,188. For comparison, it was #620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Tristen, making it the 17,071st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,969 places from #15,102 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 girls named Tristen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #724, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 290. For comparison, it was #7,247 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tristen in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 9 babies. In all, 25,554 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 10,867 babies named Tristen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,409 US boys were named Tristen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 420. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,725 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tristen ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #895 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tristan (130,794 babies since 1880), Tristin (12,612 babies since 1880), Triston (11,876 babies since 1880) and Tristian (8,601 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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.
No nicknames listed for Tristen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #895 | #875 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,074 | #377 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,251 | #376 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,449 | #504 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,458 | #482 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,468 | #742 |
| California | 8 | #1,972 | #892 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,071 | 116 | #1,512 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,102 | 127 | #1,437 |
| 2023 | — | — | 154 | #1,257 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,469 | 148 | #1,295 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,363 | 203 | #1,059 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,499 | 269 | #849 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,686 | 265 | #848 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,502 | 331 | #725 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,798 | 376 | #676 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,437 | 420 | #635 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,247 | 433 | #620 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,542 | 551 | #508 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,215 | 629 | #452 |
| 2012 | 57 | #3,003 | 849 | #360 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,760 | 851 | #353 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,669 | 941 | #333 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,444 | 1,065 | #303 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,976 | 975 | #337 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,688 | 942 | #342 |
| 2006 | 152 | #1,467 | 937 | #336 |
| 2005 | 161 | #1,353 | 869 | #342 |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,074 | 912 | #331 |
| 2003 | 243 | #964 | 851 | #337 |
| 2002 | 192 | #1,103 | 902 | #316 |
| 2001 | 210 | #1,031 | 887 | #315 |
| 2000 | 172 | #1,170 | 864 | #328 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,084 | 804 | #334 |
| 1998 | 200 | #1,003 | 1,041 | #276 |
| 1997 | 229 | #887 | 1,078 | #263 |
| 1996 | 290 | #724 | 1,188 | #249 |
| 1995 | 208 | #910 | 618 | #383 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,927 | 73 | #1,372 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,067 | 49 | #1,768 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,056 | 63 | #1,471 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,188 | 53 | #1,612 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,126 | 56 | #1,528 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,247 | 64 | #1,381 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,786 | 42 | #1,705 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,879 | 63 | #1,233 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,768 | 53 | #1,360 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,757 | 77 | #1,056 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,942 | 47 | #1,397 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,991 | 45 | #1,426 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,284 | 42 | #1,513 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,996 | 20 | #2,486 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,504 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,619 | 9 | #4,382 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,075 | 6 | #5,727 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,223 | 8 | #4,561 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,147 | 6 | #5,423 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,861 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,843 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,113 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,394 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,714 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,122 | — | — |
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).