Tristin
Tristin was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,231 among boys’ names; 12,612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,400 Americans named Tristin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tristin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tristin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tristin 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 Tristin?
#3,231 among boys’ names, 2025
Tristin fell from #1,064 in 2015 to #3,231 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 97.6 to 21.7 per million.
787 babies in 1996, the peak
Tristin peaked in 1996, when 787 babies were given it (630 boys, #374 among boys’ names). The 37 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 37 | #3,231 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 43 | #2,952 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 44 | #2,889 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 59 | #2,404 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,112 | 56 | #2,435 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 69 | #2,066 | |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,562 | 96 | #1,674 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,565 | 124 | #1,416 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,810 | 134 | #1,340 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,572 | 164 | #1,167 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,640 | 187 | #1,064 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,026 | 192 | #1,046 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,742 | 227 | #916 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,826 | 280 | #803 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,195 | 317 | #719 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,685 | 417 | #598 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,962 | 444 | #590 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,717 | 476 | #554 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,246 | 475 | #540 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,861 | 451 | #558 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,876 | 429 | #557 |
| 2004 | 131 | #1,531 | 404 | #564 |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,496 | 436 | #534 |
| 2002 | 139 | #1,392 | 472 | #491 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,760 | 443 | #514 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,670 | 427 | #522 |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,543 | 417 | #512 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,632 | 551 | #421 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,359 | 549 | #421 |
| 1996 | 157 | #1,161 | 630 | #374 |
| 1995 | 144 | #1,193 | 288 | #603 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,790 | 34 | #2,337 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,039 | 18 | #3,644 |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,024 | 31 | #2,398 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,235 | 30 | #2,396 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,633 | 33 | #2,206 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,937 | 29 | #2,344 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,124 | 51 | #1,495 |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,062 | 48 | #1,502 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,950 | 36 | #1,753 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,879 | 45 | #1,502 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,921 | 36 | #1,652 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,957 | 26 | #2,077 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,920 | 22 | #2,336 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,612 | 8 | #4,926 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,063 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,221 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,364 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,931 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 10 | #6,024 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,837 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,861 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,842 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,286 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,113 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,746 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,034 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,616 | 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 Tristin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,612 Americans recorded as Tristin, 22% are girls and 78% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Tristin every year since 1995. In 2025 it went to 37 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 Tristin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tristin, and how old are they?
12,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,612 Americans ever recorded as Tristin. The median Tristin alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 10,333 people named Tristin (2,419 women and girls, 7,914 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,146 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 | 159 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,550 |
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 Tristin born?
The states with the most babies named Tristin are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 976 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 972 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 475 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 431 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 394 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 378 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 319 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 302 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 300 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 296 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Tristin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tristin is most over-represented in Idaho: since 1968 it was given 1.4 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 Tristin 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, Tristin is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 1,509 babies (2.5%), the sixth 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 Tristin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Tristen | 25,554 |
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 Tristin and names like it
- Compare Tristin and TristanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTristin peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tristin since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Tristin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tristin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.