Trystan
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #12,448 · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to boys 87.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 182 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,509since 1982
Trystan 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 | — | #6,143 | 14 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,571 | 22 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,712 | 30 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,793 | 46 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,588 | 50 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,658 | 47 | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #2,081 | 69 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #1,593 | 103 |
| 2017 | — | #1,373 | 129 | |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #1,164 | 164 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #1,141 | 165 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #1,102 | 173 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #1,119 | 162 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | #973 | 206 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | #943 | 210 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #908 | 224 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #920 | 225 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | #966 | 207 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 | #996 | 195 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #971 | 192 |
| 2005 | #4,195 | 33 | #1,155 | 138 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #1,053 | 153 |
| 2003 | #3,472 | 41 | #979 | 163 |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 | #948 | 169 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | #1,010 | 148 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #907 | 171 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #1,032 | 134 |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | #855 | 170 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 | #818 | 178 |
| 1996 | #2,672 | 46 | #795 | 182 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #1,151 | 99 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | — | #3,338 | 19 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Trystan! It came in at #3,282, and was given to 13 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1985, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Trystan is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Nevada#378 · 1 in 1,897
- Kansas#490 · 1 in 2,682
- Missouri#542 · 1 in 3,528
- Kentucky#593 · 1 in 4,436
- Tennessee#651 · 1 in 4,474
Best ever in a state: #209 in Montana, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | #378 | 7 | 1 in 1,897 |
| Kansas | #490 | 6 | 1 in 2,682 |
| Missouri | #542 | 9 | 1 in 3,528 |
| Kentucky | #593 | 5 | 1 in 4,436 |
| Tennessee | #651 | 8 | 1 in 4,474 |
| Minnesota | #745 | 5 | 1 in 5,539 |
| Indiana | #771 | 6 | 1 in 5,946 |
| Louisiana | #788 | 5 | 1 in 4,836 |
| Texas | #896 | 22 | 1 in 8,075 |
| Ohio | #938 | 7 | 1 in 8,537 |
| Virginia | #974 | 5 | 1 in 8,364 |
| North Carolina | #1,084 | 5 | 1 in 10,111 |
| California | #1,170 | 16 | 1 in 14,406 |
| Florida | #1,177 | 8 | 1 in 11,495 |
| New York | #1,331 | 8 | 1 in 13,038 |
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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 Trystan
- 1,572 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #6,143)
- 3,485 spots since 2020 (#2,658 → #6,143)
- 5,002 spots since 2015 (#1,141 → #6,143)
- Biggest jump: 356 spots in 1996 (#1,151 → #795)
- Biggest drop: 177 spots in 1999 (#855 → #1,032)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1996 at #795 (182 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2006–2012
- Highest: 1 in 8,566 boys born in 2010 were named Trystan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #795 in 1996, was only 1 in 10,408 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.1% of all boys named Trystan (1,761) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1985, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 88 | #3,201 (1987) | #4,212 |
| 1990s | 846 | #795 (1996) | #2,392 |
| 2000s | 1,761 | #907 (2000) | #991 |
| 2010s | 1,605 | #908 (2010) | #1,240 |
| 2020s | 209 | #2,588 (2021) | #3,744 |
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.
Trystan in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 80,048 of them was named Trystan, which outranked 69.8% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,710Zuleyka23
- #5,710Zuleyma23
- #5,710Zyrah23
- #5,895Trystan22
- #5,895Abiha22
- #5,895Adeleine22
- #5,895Adelena22
- #6,110Aaleigha21
- #6,110Aaron21
- #6,110Abri21
Tied with 214 names at #5,895; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 9,208 of them was named Trystan, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).