Triston
Triston was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,447 among boys’ names; 11,876 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,600 Americans named Triston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Triston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Triston mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Triston is “a male given name.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Tristan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Triston?
#2,447 among boys’ names, 2025
Triston fell from #950 in 2015 to #2,447 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.03 per 1,000.
746 babies in 1996, the peak
Triston peaked in 1996, when 746 babies were given it (726 boys, #342 among boys’ names). The 56 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,447 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,473 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,730 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,490 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 83 | #1,867 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,092 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 86 | #1,804 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 118 | #1,475 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,285 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,192 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 218 | #950 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 259 | #858 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 296 | #766 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 348 | #681 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 371 | #631 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 442 | #575 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 480 | #552 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 547 | #501 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 481 | #534 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 538 | #486 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 510 | #487 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 492 | #497 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 455 | #522 | 0.23 |
| 2002 | 516 | #466 | 0.27 |
| 2001 | 508 | #469 | 0.26 |
| 2000 | 540 | #442 | 0.27 |
| 1999 | 501 | #457 | 0.26 |
| 1998 | 656 | #380 | 0.34 |
| 1997 | 666 | #368 | 0.35 |
| 1996 | 726 | #342 | 0.38 |
| 1995 | 372 | #526 | 0.20 |
| 1994 | 48 | #1,815 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,333 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 53 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 53 | #1,580 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 52 | #1,474 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 40 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,252 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,082 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,161 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,139 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,143 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,703 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,289 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,818 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,472 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,700 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Triston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,876 Americans recorded as Triston, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 56 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 Triston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Triston, and how old are they?
11,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,876 Americans ever recorded as Triston. The median Triston alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 9,443 people named Triston (278 women and girls, 9,165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,363 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 82 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
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 Triston born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,059 | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #764 | 2.1× |
Where Triston is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Triston is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1972 it was given 2.1 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 Triston 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, Triston is the fourth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 1,509 babies (3.7%), again the fourth 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 Triston
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 Triston and names like it
- Compare Triston and TristanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTriston peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Triston since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Triston.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Triston alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.