Tristan
Tristan is ranked 267th among boys in 2024 (1,296 births). Its best rank was 68th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- #267down 14 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,2960.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 20085,659 births
- Best rank
- #68in 1996
- Since 1946
- 129,641people given the name
The story in the numbers
123,112 boys have been named Tristan in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 5,659 births — 0.28% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 98 → 267).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 35%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 6,529 girls have also been given it, 5.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Tristan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 19 | |
| 1950s | 89 | |
| 1960s | 272 | |
| 1970s | 1,037 | |
| 1980s | 7,583 | |
| 1990s | 23,914 | |
| 2000s | 43,299 | |
| 2010s | 38,678 | |
| 2020s | 8,221 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Tristan was the 81st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Tristan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tristianpeak 2010
- Trystanpeak 2009
- Raycepeak 2012
- Braytonpeak 2012
- Kollinpeak 2009
- Aleczanderpeak 2013
- Kaelenpeak 2009
- Keatonpeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.