Triton
Triton was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,844 among boys’ names; 1,495 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Triton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Triton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Triton?
#4,844 among boys’ names, 2025
Triton fell from #1,738 in 2015 to #4,844 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 46.4 to 12.3 per million.
89 babies in 2015, the peak
Triton peaked in 2015, when 89 boys were given it, #1,738 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,844 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,887 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,767 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,613 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,615 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,920 | 44.6 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,332 | 32.9 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,956 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 82 | #1,825 | 44.3 |
| 2016 | 85 | #1,798 | 44.8 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #1,738 | 46.4 |
| 2014 | 88 | #1,726 | 45.8 |
| 2013 | 77 | #1,860 | 40.7 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,151 | 33.2 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,015 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,208 | 31.3 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,075 | 33.8 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,458 | 25.5 |
| 2007 | 57 | #2,299 | 27.5 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,975 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,894 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,209 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,433 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,779 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,955 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,049 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,735 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,438 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,615 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,084 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,740 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,926 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,629 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,349 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,988 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,341 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Triton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Triton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Triton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Triton, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,495 Americans ever recorded as Triton. The median Triton alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,113 people named Triton (8 women and girls, 1,105 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 59 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 594 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 826 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,702 babies since 1880, Triton is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 21 babies (100%), again the 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 Triton
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 Triton and names like it
- Compare Triton and TrytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTriton peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Triton since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Triton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Triton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.