Tristian
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #13,793 · #1,514 for boys in 2025, 115 births
Given to boys 92.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 304 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,960since 1977
Tristian 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,514 | 115 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,583 | 109 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,640 | 105 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,353 | 138 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,419 | 129 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,035 | 196 | |
| 2019 | — | #961 | 222 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #885 | 246 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #940 | 222 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #930 | 228 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #998 | 204 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #873 | 249 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #774 | 290 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #677 | 349 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #651 | 360 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #665 | 361 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | #693 | 349 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #727 | 318 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #724 | 316 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 | #721 | 299 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | #854 | 215 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #788 | 229 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | #822 | 213 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | #788 | 219 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 | #788 | 214 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #727 | 236 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | #724 | 226 |
| 1998 | #4,142 | 27 | #670 | 254 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | #612 | 287 |
| 1996 | #2,760 | 44 | #592 | 304 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #862 | 157 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #2,219 | 36 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #2,257 | 34 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | #1,598 | 55 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | #1,677 | 49 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | #1,733 | 44 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #1,223 | 69 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | #1,283 | 58 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | #1,269 | 58 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | #1,242 | 59 |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
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| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tristian! It came in at #4,582, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Tristian is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#875 · 1 in 14,466
- Texas#1,221 · 1 in 24,684
Best ever in a state: #230 in Idaho, 1997.
Show every state
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| Illinois | #875 | 6 | 1 in 14,466 |
| Texas | #1,221 | 6 | 1 in 24,684 |
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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 Tristian
- 69 spots since 2024 (#1,583 → #1,514)
- 479 spots since 2020 (#1,035 → #1,514)
- 516 spots since 2015 (#998 → #1,514)
- Biggest jump: 1,357 spots in 1995 (#2,219 → #862)
- Biggest drop: 125 spots in 2015 (#873 → #998)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1996 at #592 (304 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1995–2019
- Highest: 1 in 5,276 boys born in 2011 were named Tristian (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,853 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #592 in 1996, was only 1 in 6,231 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.3% of all boys named Tristian (2,731) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #4,582 (1977) | #4,582 |
| 1980s | 368 | #1,223 (1988) | #1,968 |
| 1990s | 1,454 | #592 (1996) | #1,280 |
| 2000s | 2,608 | #693 (2009) | #763 |
| 2010s | 2,731 | #651 (2011) | #835 |
| 2020s | 792 | #1,035 (2020) | #1,424 |
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.
Tristian 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 108,444 of them was named Tristian, which outranked 65.3% 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).
- #4,848Vita18
- #4,848Whittany18
- #4,848Yazmine18
- #5,049Tristian17
- #5,049Adriann17
- #5,049Aigner17
- #5,049Alanah17
- #5,286Abena16
- #5,286Adair16
- #5,286Adasha16
Tied with 236 names at #5,049; 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 45,476 of them was named Tristian, which outranked 81.2% 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).
- #1,705Sammuel45
- #1,705Semaj45
- #1,705Zebulon45
- #1,733Tristian44
- #1,733Armen44
- #1,733Benjiman44
- #1,733Bert44
- #1,766Barron43
- #1,766Blain43
- #1,766Brion43
Tied with 32 names at #1,733; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.