Tristan
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #309 for boys in 2025, 1,103 births
Given to boys 95.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 5,458 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 13 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 124,243since 1946
Tristan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #309 | 1,103 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #267 | 1,302 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #253 | 1,382 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #225 | 1,600 |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 | #208 | 1,825 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #182 | 2,124 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #151 | 2,573 |
| 2018 | #3,789 | 39 | #123 | 3,230 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | #121 | 3,309 |
| 2016 | #2,517 | 71 | #108 | 3,639 |
| 2015 | #2,318 | 80 | #101 | 3,927 |
| 2014 | #2,809 | 61 | #98 | 3,927 |
| 2013 | #2,385 | 76 | #96 | 4,016 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | #88 | 4,441 |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 | #87 | 4,732 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 99 | #84 | 4,899 |
| 2009 | #1,561 | 144 | #80 | 5,350 |
| 2008 | #1,486 | 157 | #81 | 5,659 |
| 2007 | #1,269 | 194 | #87 | 5,340 |
| 2006 | #1,240 | 194 | #86 | 5,414 |
| 2005 | #1,222 | 186 | #113 | 3,591 |
| 2004 | #1,095 | 209 | #115 | 3,481 |
| 2003 | #1,013 | 228 | #112 | 3,634 |
| 2002 | #870 | 263 | #103 | 3,725 |
| 2001 | #1,076 | 197 | #108 | 3,575 |
| 2000 | #1,021 | 206 | #105 | 3,531 |
| 1999 | #1,047 | 194 | #99 | 3,845 |
| 1998 | #851 | 251 | #92 | 4,169 |
| 1997 | #824 | 251 | #92 | 4,197 |
| 1996 | #590 | 386 | #68 | 5,458 |
| 1995 | #720 | 284 | #121 | 3,088 |
| 1994 | #1,583 | 96 | #451 | 492 |
| 1993 | #1,460 | 109 | #408 | 567 |
| 1992 | #1,410 | 116 | #372 | 622 |
| 1991 | #1,383 | 116 | #336 | 724 |
| 1990 | #1,208 | 140 | #330 | 753 |
| 1989 | #1,187 | 137 | #312 | 764 |
| 1988 | #1,104 | 141 | #287 | 803 |
| 1987 | #1,093 | 139 | #246 | 934 |
| 1986 | #927 | 172 | #243 | 923 |
| 1985 | #894 | 178 | #222 | 1,061 |
| 1984 | #914 | 163 | #251 | 873 |
| 1983 | #894 | 169 | #248 | 854 |
| 1982 | #972 | 152 | #275 | 762 |
| 1981 | #1,319 | 95 | #415 | 400 |
| 1980 | #2,308 | 42 | #602 | 208 |
| 1979 | #2,582 | 35 | #660 | 167 |
| 1978 | #2,350 | 38 | #732 | 132 |
| 1977 | #2,606 | 32 | #786 | 118 |
| 1976 | #2,255 | 37 | #790 | 110 |
| 1975 | #2,196 | 38 | #780 | 113 |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 | #825 | 95 |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 | #948 | 72 |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 | #911 | 77 |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 | #859 | 90 |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | #1,023 | 63 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 | #1,097 | 50 |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 | #1,057 | 49 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #1,411 | 29 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | #1,299 | 34 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | #1,669 | 22 |
| 1964 | — | #1,975 | 17 | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #1,548 | 26 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #1,713 | 22 |
| 1961 | — | #2,322 | 13 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,091 | 15 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tristan! It came in at #3,525, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tristan is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maine#146 · 1 in 1,090
- Washington#165 · 1 in 1,031
- Wisconsin#193 · 1 in 1,742
- Oregon#196 · 1 in 1,389
- Colorado#204 · 1 in 1,423
Best ever in a state: #25 in Montana, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #146 | 7 | 1 in 1,090 |
| Washington | #165 | 33 | 1 in 1,031 |
| Wisconsin | #193 | 19 | 1 in 1,742 |
| Oregon | #196 | 14 | 1 in 1,389 |
| Colorado | #204 | 17 | 1 in 1,423 |
| Oklahoma | #226 | 13 | 1 in 1,581 |
| Indiana | #230 | 19 | 1 in 2,085 |
| North Carolina | #234 | 26 | 1 in 1,779 |
| Arkansas | #238 | 9 | 1 in 1,704 |
| Kentucky | #247 | 10 | 1 in 2,445 |
| Alabama | #251 | 16 | 1 in 1,690 |
| Kansas | #251 | 9 | 1 in 1,894 |
| Iowa | #252 | 7 | 1 in 2,604 |
| New York | #254 | 76 | 1 in 1,775 |
| Mississippi | #265 | 10 | 1 in 1,717 |
| Maryland | #268 | 14 | 1 in 2,292 |
| Virginia | #275 | 19 | 1 in 2,203 |
| Arizona | #279 | 15 | 1 in 2,019 |
| South Carolina | #281 | 12 | 1 in 1,965 |
| Connecticut | #284 | 8 | 1 in 2,769 |
| Missouri | #288 | 14 | 1 in 2,696 |
| Texas | #300 | 72 | 1 in 2,057 |
| Georgia | #312 | 19 | 1 in 2,603 |
| Tennessee | #318 | 12 | 1 in 2,887 |
| Pennsylvania | #322 | 23 | 1 in 3,540 |
| California | #334 | 98 | 1 in 2,741 |
| Michigan | #337 | 21 | 1 in 3,306 |
| Florida | #352 | 32 | 1 in 2,791 |
| Massachusetts | #356 | 9 | 1 in 4,862 |
| Louisiana | #365 | 13 | 1 in 2,455 |
| Illinois | #372 | 27 | 1 in 3,215 |
| Ohio | #393 | 16 | 1 in 4,882 |
| District of Columbia | #407 | 7 | 1 in 1,877 |
| Minnesota | #414 | 5 | 1 in 6,309 |
| New Jersey | #436 | 11 | 1 in 5,008 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tristan
- 42 spots since 2024 (#267 → #309)
- 127 spots since 2020 (#182 → #309)
- 208 spots since 2015 (#101 → #309)
- Biggest jump: 330 spots in 1995 (#451 → #121)
- Biggest drop: 52 spots in 1972 (#859 → #911)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1996 at #68 (5,458 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 13 yrs · run 2006–2014
- Top 1,000: 55 yrs · run 1971–2025
- Highest: 1 in 347 boys born in 1996 were named Tristan (0.29%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,549 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 34.9% of all boys named Tristan (43,300) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 19 | #2,608 (1948) | #3,274 |
| 1950s | 89 | #2,091 (1956) | #2,896 |
| 1960s | 272 | #1,057 (1968) | #1,678 |
| 1970s | 1,037 | #660 (1979) | #831 |
| 1980s | 7,582 | #222 (1985) | #310 |
| 1990s | 23,915 | #68 (1996) | #237 |
| 2000s | 43,300 | #80 (2009) | #99 |
| 2010s | 38,693 | #84 (2010) | #106 |
| 2020s | 9,336 | #182 (2020) | #241 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tristan in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 13,457 of them was named Tristan, which outranked 91.8% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,183Cherrelle138
- #1,183Natashia138
- #1,183Scarlett138
- #1,187Tristan137
- #1,187Alba137
- #1,187Ileana137
- #1,187Karlee137
- #1,196Elana136
- #1,196Ida136
- #1,196Vanesa136
Tied with 8 names at #1,187; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 2,619 of them was named Tristan, which outranked 96.6% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.