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Tristyn

Tristyn is a boy's name that peaked in 2010, when it was the 1,256th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,539th. About 4,400 Tristyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tristyn boys named Tristyn

Girls and boys called Tristyn

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Tristyn crossed from girls to boys in 2006, and has stayed there for 14 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 69% boys, and in 2025 it was 54%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 31 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
4,465
Estimated living today
4,400
Median age today
17
Peak year
2010
Best rank
1,256th
Rank in 2025
4,539th
First recorded
1982
Girls / boys
2,221 / 2,244

How old the living Tristyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,465 babies given the name since 1982, about 4,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Tristyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tristyn is most concentrated in Texas (4.2×), Florida (2.5×), Georgia (2.2×), Colorado (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular boys’ names the year Tristyn peaked:

All the names of 2010

Tristyn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Tristyn 46 2,544th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Tristyn against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.