Tristan
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #309 for boys in 2025, 1,103 births
Given to boys 95.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 5,458 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 13 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 124,243since 1946
Tristan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #309 | 1,103 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #267 | 1,302 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #253 | 1,382 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #225 | 1,600 |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 | #208 | 1,825 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #182 | 2,124 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #151 | 2,573 |
| 2018 | #3,789 | 39 | #123 | 3,230 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | #121 | 3,309 |
| 2016 | #2,517 | 71 | #108 | 3,639 |
| 2015 | #2,318 | 80 | #101 | 3,927 |
| 2014 | #2,809 | 61 | #98 | 3,927 |
| 2013 | #2,385 | 76 | #96 | 4,016 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | #88 | 4,441 |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 | #87 | 4,732 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 99 | #84 | 4,899 |
| 2009 | #1,561 | 144 | #80 | 5,350 |
| 2008 | #1,486 | 157 | #81 | 5,659 |
| 2007 | #1,269 | 194 | #87 | 5,340 |
| 2006 | #1,240 | 194 | #86 | 5,414 |
| 2005 | #1,222 | 186 | #113 | 3,591 |
| 2004 | #1,095 | 209 | #115 | 3,481 |
| 2003 | #1,013 | 228 | #112 | 3,634 |
| 2002 | #870 | 263 | #103 | 3,725 |
| 2001 | #1,076 | 197 | #108 | 3,575 |
| 2000 | #1,021 | 206 | #105 | 3,531 |
| 1999 | #1,047 | 194 | #99 | 3,845 |
| 1998 | #851 | 251 | #92 | 4,169 |
| 1997 | #824 | 251 | #92 | 4,197 |
| 1996 | #590 | 386 | #68 | 5,458 |
| 1995 | #720 | 284 | #121 | 3,088 |
| 1994 | #1,583 | 96 | #451 | 492 |
| 1993 | #1,460 | 109 | #408 | 567 |
| 1992 | #1,410 | 116 | #372 | 622 |
| 1991 | #1,383 | 116 | #336 | 724 |
| 1990 | #1,208 | 140 | #330 | 753 |
| 1989 | #1,187 | 137 | #312 | 764 |
| 1988 | #1,104 | 141 | #287 | 803 |
| 1987 | #1,093 | 139 | #246 | 934 |
| 1986 | #927 | 172 | #243 | 923 |
| 1985 | #894 | 178 | #222 | 1,061 |
| 1984 | #914 | 163 | #251 | 873 |
| 1983 | #894 | 169 | #248 | 854 |
| 1982 | #972 | 152 | #275 | 762 |
| 1981 | #1,319 | 95 | #415 | 400 |
| 1980 | #2,308 | 42 | #602 | 208 |
| 1979 | #2,582 | 35 | #660 | 167 |
| 1978 | #2,350 | 38 | #732 | 132 |
| 1977 | #2,606 | 32 | #786 | 118 |
| 1976 | #2,255 | 37 | #790 | 110 |
| 1975 | #2,196 | 38 | #780 | 113 |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 | #825 | 95 |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 | #948 | 72 |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 | #911 | 77 |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 | #859 | 90 |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | #1,023 | 63 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 | #1,097 | 50 |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 | #1,057 | 49 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #1,411 | 29 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | #1,299 | 34 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | #1,669 | 22 |
| 1964 | — | #1,975 | 17 | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #1,548 | 26 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #1,713 | 22 |
| 1961 | — | #2,322 | 13 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,091 | 15 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tristan! It came in at #3,525, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tristan
- 42 spots since 2024 (#267 → #309)
- 127 spots since 2020 (#182 → #309)
- 208 spots since 2015 (#101 → #309)
- Biggest jump: 330 spots in 1995 (#451 → #121)
- Biggest drop: 52 spots in 1972 (#859 → #911)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1996 at #68 (5,458 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 13 yrs · run 2006–2014
- Top 1,000: 55 yrs · run 1971–2025
- Highest: 1 in 347 boys born in 1996 were named Tristan (0.29%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,549 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 34.9% of all boys named Tristan (43,300) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 19 | #2,608 (1948) | #3,274 |
| 1950s | 89 | #2,091 (1956) | #2,896 |
| 1960s | 272 | #1,057 (1968) | #1,678 |
| 1970s | 1,037 | #660 (1979) | #831 |
| 1980s | 7,582 | #222 (1985) | #310 |
| 1990s | 23,915 | #68 (1996) | #237 |
| 2000s | 43,300 | #80 (2009) | #99 |
| 2010s | 38,693 | #84 (2010) | #106 |
| 2020s | 9,336 | #182 (2020) | #241 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tristan in 1946
Top boys' names in 1946
More about 1946
boys
1,624,023 boys got a published name in 1946; 1 in 324,805 of them was named Tristan, which outranked 12.3% of the 4,018 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 493 names at #3,525; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.