Tristen
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,509 for boys in 2025, 116 births
Given to boys 83.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 1,188 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 21,372since 1975
Tristen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,509 | 116 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,432 | 127 |
| 2023 | — | #1,253 | 154 | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #1,289 | 148 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,054 | 203 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #846 | 269 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #845 | 265 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #723 | 331 |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 | #675 | 376 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 | #635 | 420 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | #620 | 433 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #508 | 551 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | #452 | 629 |
| 2012 | #2,978 | 57 | #359 | 849 |
| 2011 | #2,725 | 64 | #353 | 851 |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 | #333 | 941 |
| 2009 | #2,425 | 79 | #303 | 1,065 |
| 2008 | #1,966 | 107 | #337 | 975 |
| 2007 | #1,679 | 131 | #342 | 942 |
| 2006 | #1,462 | 152 | #336 | 937 |
| 2005 | #1,350 | 161 | #341 | 869 |
| 2004 | #1,067 | 216 | #331 | 912 |
| 2003 | #959 | 243 | #337 | 851 |
| 2002 | #1,100 | 192 | #316 | 902 |
| 2001 | #1,025 | 210 | #315 | 887 |
| 2000 | #1,168 | 172 | #328 | 864 |
| 1999 | #1,077 | 186 | #334 | 804 |
| 1998 | #998 | 200 | #276 | 1,041 |
| 1997 | #887 | 229 | #263 | 1,078 |
| 1996 | #722 | 290 | #249 | 1,188 |
| 1995 | #908 | 208 | #383 | 618 |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 | #1,362 | 73 |
| 1993 | #2,045 | 67 | #1,741 | 49 |
| 1992 | #2,033 | 67 | #1,452 | 63 |
| 1991 | #2,163 | 61 | #1,589 | 53 |
| 1990 | #2,101 | 62 | #1,516 | 56 |
| 1989 | #2,222 | 54 | #1,374 | 64 |
| 1988 | #1,769 | 71 | #1,671 | 42 |
| 1987 | #1,860 | 62 | #1,218 | 63 |
| 1986 | #1,751 | 66 | #1,345 | 53 |
| 1985 | #1,740 | 65 | #1,050 | 77 |
| 1984 | #1,922 | 54 | #1,382 | 47 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 | #1,399 | 45 |
| 1982 | #2,250 | 44 | #1,487 | 42 |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 | #2,418 | 20 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
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| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
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First appearance
1975
The first year at least five boys were named Tristen! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 77 spots since 2024 (#1,432 → #1,509)
- 663 spots since 2020 (#846 → #1,509)
- 889 spots since 2015 (#620 → #1,509)
- Biggest jump: 979 spots in 1995 (#1,362 → #383)
- Biggest drop: 208 spots in 2021 (#846 → #1,054)
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1996 at #249 (1,188 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 18 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 26 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1995–2020
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,595
- Highest: 1 in 1,595 boys born in 1996 were named Tristen (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,725 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 43.1% of all boys named Tristen (9,204) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1995
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 29 | #4,068 (1979) | #4,522 |
| 1980s | 453 | #1,050 (1985) | #1,483 |
| 1990s | 5,023 | #249 (1996) | #917 |
| 2000s | 9,204 | #303 (2009) | #329 |
| 2010s | 5,646 | #333 (2010) | #550 |
| 2020s | 1,017 | #846 (2020) | #1,231 |
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.
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