Tristian
Tristian was given to 115 boys in 2025, #1,518 among boys’ names; 8,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,460 Americans named Tristian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tristian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tristian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tristian is “a male given name.”
Rare modern variant of Tristan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tristian?
#1,518 among boys’ names, 2025
Tristian fell from #1,005 in 2015 to #1,518 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.07 per 1,000.
373 babies in 2010, the peak
Tristian peaked in 2010, when 373 babies were given it (361 boys, #665 among boys’ names). The 115 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,518 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 109 | #1,588 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,649 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,362 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,423 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,038 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 222 | #966 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 246 | #887 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 222 | #943 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 228 | #931 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 204 | #1,005 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 249 | #875 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 290 | #776 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 349 | #679 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 360 | #652 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 361 | #665 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 349 | #693 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 318 | #728 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 316 | #727 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 299 | #723 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 215 | #858 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 229 | #789 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 213 | #824 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 219 | #788 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 214 | #792 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 236 | #727 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 226 | #725 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 254 | #672 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 287 | #613 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 304 | #592 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 157 | #869 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,253 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,286 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,615 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 49 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 52 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,234 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,028 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,090 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tristian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,601 Americans recorded as Tristian, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 115 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tristian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tristian, and how old are they?
8,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,601 Americans ever recorded as Tristian. The median Tristian alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 6,351 people named Tristian (550 women and girls, 5,801 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,758 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,480 |
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 Tristian born?
The states with the most babies named Tristian are Texas, Georgia and North Carolina, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,166 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 11 | #847 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #862 | 1.3× |
| New York | 8 | #1,394 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,445 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,028 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,073 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,462 | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #870 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,421 | 0.5× |
Where Tristian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tristian is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1977 it was given 2.0 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 Tristian 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 200,157 babies since 1880, Tristian is the fifth most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 115 of their 1,509 babies (7.6%), the third most given that year.
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 Tristian
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 Tristian and names like it
- Compare Tristian and TristanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTristian peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tristian since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Tristian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tristian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.