Meaning not yet researched.
Triton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,726 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,726 in 2014; #4,845 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Triton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,845 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,726.
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Triton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,726 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 89 (2015).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Triton, making it the 4,845th most common boys’ name of the year, down 956 places from #3,889 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 29 boys named Triton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,726, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 89, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,738 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Triton in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 10 babies. In all, 1,495 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 747 babies named Triton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 578 US boys were named Triton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Treyton (3,199 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tritan and Driton are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tritan (37), Driton (16).
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 Triton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 21 | #4,845 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,889 |
| 2023 | — | — | 47 | #2,768 |
| 2022 | — | — | 52 | #2,614 |
| 2021 | — | — | 50 | #2,616 |
| 2020 | — | — | 77 | #1,920 |
| 2019 | — | — | 59 | #2,333 |
| 2018 | — | — | 76 | #1,957 |
| 2017 | — | — | 82 | #1,825 |
| 2016 | — | — | 85 | #1,798 |
| 2015 | — | — | 89 | #1,738 |
| 2014 | — | — | 88 | #1,726 |
| 2013 | — | — | 77 | #1,861 |
| 2012 | — | — | 63 | #2,152 |
| 2011 | — | — | 68 | #2,016 |
| 2010 | — | — | 60 | #2,209 |
| 2009 | — | — | 67 | #2,076 |
| 2008 | — | — | 52 | #2,459 |
| 2007 | — | — | 57 | #2,299 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,976 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,898 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,213 |
| 2003 | — | — | 27 | #3,438 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,784 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,961 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,055 |
| 1999 | — | — | 15 | #4,741 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,444 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,621 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #7,091 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,747 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,932 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,635 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,356 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,995 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,348 |
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).