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Trista

Girls' name

Feminine form of Tristan

Trista has been given to 12,464 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1984, with 1,215 recorded.

Babies named Trista, 2024

1 in 478,000

Trista over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trista: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Tristan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trista means

Trista is a feminine form of Tristan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Trista is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹɪs.tə/ for Trista.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Trista → 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, 12,459 girls were recorded with the name Trista between 1960 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 1,215 in 1984; its best national rank was #214 in 1984.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Trista between 1986 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1986; its best national rank was #7,746 in 1986.

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 Trista?

Trista had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trista sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trista. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tristas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trista was born before 1987 — so the typical Trista is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12,459
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (4,967).

Is Trista 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 1984 (1,215)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#214
1984

Spellings of Trista

Trista is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 35.3% against Trista's 1.5%.

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.

Where Trista is used

Across 1910–2025, Trista was most concentrated in Wyoming — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 16,097 across all states with data. It was least common in Rhode Island (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wyoming1 in 4,348
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 5,882
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 6,250
  4. 4Oregon1 in 6,250
  5. 5Utah1 in 6,250
  6. 6Montana1 in 7,692
  7. 7Washington1 in 7,692
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Trista has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trista around the world

Where Trista 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1965–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Trista

People whose public names include Trista, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Trista in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Trista. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tris

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Trista by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#214
1984
Peak year
1984
1,215 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
12,459
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,746
1986
Peak year
1986
5 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trista

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

TriciaTrishaTristanTrinaTristenTrinitiTrixieAugustaShastaTrianaTristynCalistaTrinidadTrinityChristaKristaKrystaTrishTristinCristaTriniteeKalistaVestaEsta

Names with a curve like Trista

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Trista, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElishaChristenChristinJaymeNikitaJenaLacyRachealKandiceLacieTiffanieJoshua

Sibling names for Trista

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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