Trysten
Trysten was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 1,695 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Trysten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trysten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Trysten?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,925, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 2006, the peak
Trysten peaked in 2006, when 95 babies were given it (77 boys, #1,807 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,925 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #8,202 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 16 | #5,842 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 10 | #8,106 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 22 | #4,523 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 16 | #5,784 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 16 | #5,746 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 36 | #3,243 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 41 | #2,927 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 45 | #2,714 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #19,008 | 46 | #2,655 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,058 | 44 | #2,709 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,134 | 61 | #2,181 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,072 | 79 | #1,822 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,198 | 74 | #1,922 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,607 | 75 | #1,923 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,935 | 74 | #1,946 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,503 | 74 | #1,926 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,123 | 77 | #1,807 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,980 | 67 | #1,913 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,949 | 51 | #2,276 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,550 | 63 | #1,880 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,883 | 61 | #1,864 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,157 | 48 | #2,179 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,545 | 59 | #1,825 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,429 | 47 | #2,058 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,343 | 51 | #1,923 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,709 | 62 | #1,643 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,725 | 48 | #1,898 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,011 | 28 | #2,673 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,327 | 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 Trysten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,695 Americans recorded as Trysten, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Trysten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trysten, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,695 Americans ever recorded as Trysten. The median Trysten alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,437 people named Trysten (288 women and girls, 1,149 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,616 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 | 113 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 321 |
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).
How common is the spelling Trysten?
Trysten is a less common spelling of Tristen: SSA has recorded 1,695 Trysten and 25,554 Tristen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 193,503 babies since 1880, Trysten is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,394 babies recorded by SSA was a Trysten (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Trysten
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 Trysten and names like it
- Compare Trysten and TristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTrysten peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trysten since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Trysten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Trysten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.