Meaning not yet researched.
Tristian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 115 in 2025. Its best rank was #592 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #592 in 1996; #1,518 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tristian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,518 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #592.
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Tristian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 115 boys in 2025. Peak: #592 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 361 (2010).
In 2025, 115 US boys were named Tristian, making it the 1,518th most common boys’ name of the year, up 70 places from #1,588 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 109 boys named Tristian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #592, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 361, in 2010. For comparison, it was #1,005 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tristian in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 7 babies. In all, 8,601 US babies have been given the name, 7.5% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,832 babies named Tristian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,710 US boys were named Tristian; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 246. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,853 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tristian ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #847 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), Tristen (25,554 babies since 1880), Tristin (12,612 babies since 1880) and Triston (11,876 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Tristian 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 11 | #847 | #657 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #862 | #824 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #870 | #586 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,028 | #736 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,166 | #1,063 |
| New York | 8 | #1,394 | #666 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,421 | #796 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,462 | #826 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,073 | #1,370 |
| California | 6 | #2,445 | #1,856 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 115 | #1,518 |
| 2024 | — | — | 109 | #1,588 |
| 2023 | — | — | 105 | #1,649 |
| 2022 | — | — | 138 | #1,362 |
| 2021 | — | — | 129 | #1,423 |
| 2020 | — | — | 196 | #1,038 |
| 2019 | — | — | 222 | #966 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,537 | 246 | #887 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,770 | 222 | #943 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,664 | 228 | #931 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,383 | 204 | #1,005 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,986 | 249 | #875 |
| 2013 | 13 | #9,008 | 290 | #776 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,378 | 349 | #679 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,684 | 360 | #652 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,742 | 361 | #665 |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,029 | 349 | #693 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,335 | 318 | #728 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,077 | 316 | #727 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,696 | 299 | #723 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,984 | 215 | #858 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,952 | 229 | #789 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,229 | 213 | #825 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,274 | 219 | #789 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,439 | 214 | #793 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,926 | 236 | #728 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,883 | 226 | #727 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,232 | 254 | #672 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,891 | 287 | #613 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,793 | 304 | #592 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,665 | 157 | #872 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,510 | 36 | #2,258 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,728 | 34 | #2,291 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,469 | 55 | #1,620 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,573 | 49 | #1,696 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,822 | 52 | #1,612 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,277 | 44 | #1,764 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,883 | 69 | #1,237 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,470 | 58 | #1,293 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,753 | 58 | #1,284 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,847 | 59 | #1,257 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,868 | 27 | #2,029 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,282 | 23 | #2,267 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,183 | 22 | #2,336 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,927 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #5,092 |
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).