Trystan
Trystan was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,413 among boys’ names; 5,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Trystan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trystan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Trystan?
#6,413 among boys’ names, 2025
Trystan fell from #1,147 in 2015 to #6,413 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 86.1 to 8.2 per million.
249 babies in 2010, the peak
Trystan peaked in 2010, when 249 babies were given it (224 boys, #909 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,413 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 22 | #4,684 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 30 | #3,792 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 46 | #2,824 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 50 | #2,616 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 47 | #2,685 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,699 | 69 | #2,107 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,373 | 103 | #1,601 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 129 | #1,377 | |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,834 | 164 | #1,168 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,091 | 165 | #1,147 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,609 | 173 | #1,108 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,704 | 162 | #1,126 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,092 | 206 | #974 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,131 | 210 | #949 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,584 | 224 | #909 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,299 | 225 | #924 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,424 | 207 | #967 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,218 | 195 | #1,001 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,819 | 192 | #973 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,257 | 138 | #1,160 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,385 | 153 | #1,057 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,520 | 163 | #980 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,588 | 169 | #952 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,554 | 148 | #1,012 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,776 | 171 | #908 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,859 | 134 | #1,036 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,638 | 170 | #856 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,442 | 178 | #818 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,709 | 182 | #794 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,507 | 99 | #1,153 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,580 | 18 | #3,735 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,348 | 23 | #3,027 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 19 | #3,446 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 14 | #4,203 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,872 | 9 | #5,779 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 15 | #3,789 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 12 | #4,142 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,229 | 15 | #3,322 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,837 | 13 | #3,634 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,613 | 6 | #6,478 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,349 | 5 | #7,266 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,983 | 9 | #4,472 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 13 | #3,469 |
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 Trystan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,169 Americans recorded as Trystan, 13% are girls and 87% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 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 Trystan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trystan, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,169 Americans ever recorded as Trystan. The median Trystan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 4,388 people named Trystan (640 women and girls, 3,748 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,915 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 554 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,240 |
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 Trystan born?
The states with the most babies named Trystan are Texas, California and Florida, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 461 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 342 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 190 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 135 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 104 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 103 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 94 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 92 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 88 | not ranked | 0.7× |
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 Trystan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Trystan?
Trystan is a less common spelling of Tristan: SSA has recorded 5,169 Trystan and 130,794 Tristan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 200,766 babies since 1880, Trystan is the sixth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 1,509 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Trystan
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 Trystan and names like it
- Compare Trystan and TristanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTrystan peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trystan since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Trystan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Trystan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.