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Drystan

Boys' name

Form of Tristan

Drystan has been given to 78 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Drystan, 2018

1 in 586,000

Drystan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Drystan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tristan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Drystan means

Drystan is a form of Tristan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Drystan is used in Welsh.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdrə.stan/ for Drystan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Drystan → Tristan. The family’s meaning is “riot”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tristan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 78 boys were recorded with the name Drystan between 2005 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,408 in 2012.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Drystan?

Drystan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Drystan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drystan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Drystans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Drystan was born before 2011 — so the typical Drystan is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
78
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.1% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Drystan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (13)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,408
2012

Spellings of Drystan

Drystan is not the most common spelling — Tristan is, with 89.6% against Drystan's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Drystan around the world

Where Drystan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • France
    2000–2018
    #5,874
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Drystan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,408
2012
Peak year
2012
13 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
78
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Drystan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Drystan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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