Tristen
Tristen was given to 116 boys in 2025, #1,512 among boys’ names; 25,554 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,100 Americans named Tristen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tristen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tristen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tristen is “a male or female given name of modern usage.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Tristan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tristen?
#1,512 among boys’ names, 2025
Tristen fell from #620 in 2015 to #1,512 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.23 to 0.07 per 1,000.
1,478 babies in 1996, the peak
Tristen peaked in 1996, when 1,478 babies were given it (1,188 boys, #249 among boys’ names). The 121 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,067 | 116 | #1,512 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,097 | 127 | #1,437 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 154 | #1,257 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,464 | 148 | #1,295 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,358 | 203 | #1,059 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,494 | 269 | #849 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,681 | 265 | #848 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,497 | 331 | #725 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,796 | 376 | #676 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,436 | 420 | #635 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,244 | 433 | #620 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,540 | 551 | #508 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,214 | 629 | #452 |
| 2012 | 57 | #3,002 | 849 | #360 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,759 | 851 | #353 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,669 | 941 | #333 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,443 | 1,065 | #303 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,976 | 975 | #337 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,688 | 942 | #342 |
| 2006 | 152 | #1,467 | 937 | #336 |
| 2005 | 161 | #1,353 | 869 | #342 |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,074 | 912 | #331 |
| 2003 | 243 | #963 | 851 | #337 |
| 2002 | 192 | #1,102 | 902 | #316 |
| 2001 | 210 | #1,030 | 887 | #315 |
| 2000 | 172 | #1,168 | 864 | #328 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,082 | 804 | #334 |
| 1998 | 200 | #1,002 | 1,041 | #276 |
| 1997 | 229 | #886 | 1,078 | #263 |
| 1996 | 290 | #724 | 1,188 | #249 |
| 1995 | 208 | #907 | 618 | #383 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,922 | 73 | #1,368 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,062 | 49 | #1,763 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,051 | 63 | #1,466 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,182 | 53 | #1,606 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,121 | 56 | #1,523 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,242 | 64 | #1,376 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,784 | 42 | #1,700 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,878 | 63 | #1,231 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,767 | 53 | #1,359 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,756 | 77 | #1,055 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,942 | 47 | #1,396 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,990 | 45 | #1,425 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,284 | 42 | #1,512 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,995 | 20 | #2,485 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,503 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,618 | 9 | #4,380 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,075 | 6 | #5,724 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,222 | 8 | #4,559 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,346 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,145 | 6 | #5,421 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,860 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,841 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,285 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,111 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,393 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,713 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,121 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tristen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 25,554 Americans recorded as Tristen, 16% are girls and 84% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Tristen every year since 1995. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 116 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tristen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tristen, and how old are they?
25,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 25,554 Americans ever recorded as Tristen. The median Tristen alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 20,670 people named Tristen (3,600 women and girls, 17,070 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,259 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,210 |
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 Tristen born?
The states with the most babies named Tristen are Texas, California and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,468 | 0.9× |
| California | 8 | #1,972 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,458 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,074 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 8 | #895 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,251 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,449 | 1.1× |
Where Tristen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tristen is most over-represented in Montana: since 1968 it was given 1.8 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 boys’ 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 Tristen 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 200,766 babies since 1880, Tristen is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 1,509 babies (8.0%), again the second most given.
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 Tristen
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 Tristen and names like it
- Compare Tristen and TristanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTristen peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tristen since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Tristen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tristen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.