Tristan — #267 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tristan

The Social Security Administration has registered 123,112 babies named Tristan between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tristan currently holds the #267 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 5,659 babies received it in a single year. Tristan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,529 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tristan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 43,299 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Tristan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12,327 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Tristan in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tristan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 123,112 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.