Trista
Trista was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 12,464 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,100 Americans named Trista and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 24 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trista by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Trista?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,360, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,215 babies in 1984, the peak
Trista peaked in 1984, when 1,215 girls were given it, #214 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,360 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,076 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,908 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,394 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,733 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,911 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,978 | 0.02 |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,589 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,838 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,968 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 73 | #2,515 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,966 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,561 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 178 | #1,348 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 221 | #1,164 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 258 | #1,026 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 335 | #816 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 362 | #746 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 535 | #531 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 566 | #506 | 0.31 |
| 2002 | 229 | #969 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,320 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 117 | #1,539 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,387 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 165 | #1,147 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 165 | #1,136 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 231 | #863 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 172 | #1,045 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,121 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 171 | #1,067 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 222 | #888 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 235 | #854 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 279 | #744 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 288 | #695 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 363 | #569 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 440 | #494 | 0.25 |
| 1986 | 558 | #403 | 0.33 |
| 1985 | 789 | #306 | 0.46 |
| 1984 | 1,215 | #214 | 0.72 |
| 1983 | 823 | #285 | 0.49 |
| 1982 | 153 | #971 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 153 | #963 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 185 | #844 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 158 | #939 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 145 | #963 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 163 | #883 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 158 | #865 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 201 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 225 | #670 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 201 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 255 | #616 | 0.17 |
| 1971 | 215 | #711 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 138 | #935 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,354 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,810 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,261 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #4,004 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,244 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Trista a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Trista has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Trista: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trista, and how old are they?
12,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 12,464 Americans ever recorded as Trista. The median Trista alive today is 39 years old; half are between 24 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 11,025 people named Trista (10,945 women and girls, 80 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,163 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 257 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Trista born?
The states with the most babies named Trista are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 865 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 738 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 597 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 540 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 476 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Wisconsin | 432 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 427 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 421 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 418 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 381 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Trista is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Trista is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1960 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Trista with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 12,887 babies since 1880, Trista is the most given (97% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Trista
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Trista and names like it
- Compare Trista and TrystaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTrista peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trista since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Trista.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Trista alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.