Tristen — #1430 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tristen

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,252 babies named Tristen between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tristen currently holds the #1430 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 1,188 babies received it in a single year. Tristen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,177 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tristen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 9,203 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tristen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,906 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Tristen in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tristen 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 21,252 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.