Fewer than five US boys were named Trysten in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,646, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 79, in 2011. For comparison, it was #2,715 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Trysten in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,730, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 23, in 2001. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Trysten in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 1,695 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 816 babies named Trysten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 176 US boys were named Trysten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 41.
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).