Meaning not yet researched.
Trystan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #796 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #796 in 1996; #6,417 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Trystan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,417 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #796.
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Trystan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #796 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 225 (2009).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Trystan, making it the 6,417th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,729 places from #4,688 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 22 boys named Trystan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #796, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 225, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,147 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Trystan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,713, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 46. For comparison, it was #10,096 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Trystan in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 13 babies. In all, 5,169 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,066 babies named Trystan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 674 US boys were named Trystan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 164. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Trystan 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 | — | — | 14 | #6,417 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,688 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,795 |
| 2022 | — | — | 46 | #2,826 |
| 2021 | — | — | 50 | #2,617 |
| 2020 | — | — | 47 | #2,686 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,704 | 69 | #2,108 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,378 | 103 | #1,601 |
| 2017 | — | — | 129 | #1,377 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,837 | 164 | #1,168 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,096 | 165 | #1,147 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,612 | 173 | #1,108 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,708 | 162 | #1,126 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,095 | 206 | #974 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,134 | 210 | #949 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,586 | 224 | #909 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,302 | 225 | #924 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,427 | 207 | #967 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,221 | 195 | #1,001 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,821 | 192 | #973 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,261 | 138 | #1,161 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,389 | 153 | #1,058 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,524 | 163 | #981 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,592 | 169 | #953 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,559 | 148 | #1,013 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,781 | 171 | #910 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,865 | 134 | #1,038 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,641 | 170 | #857 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,445 | 178 | #820 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,713 | 182 | #796 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,512 | 99 | #1,157 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,586 | 18 | #3,741 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,354 | 23 | #3,033 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,452 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,210 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,878 | 9 | #5,786 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,795 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,147 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,234 | 15 | #3,326 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,842 | 13 | #3,638 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,618 | 6 | #6,484 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,354 | 5 | #7,270 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,987 | 9 | #4,474 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,470 |
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).