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Tristin

#3,231 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Tristan; deeper meaning uncertain

Tristin has been given to 12,612 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,231 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 630 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% boys, 22% girls all-time.

Babies named Tristin, 2025

1 in 89,600

Tristin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tristin over time

In 2025, Tristin went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19682025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tristin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tristan; deeper meaning uncertain

English variant of a medieval literary name

About Tristin

Tristin is a spelling variant of Tristan, the name of a central figure in medieval romance. Its deeper origin is uncertain, though the Tristan form was probably influenced by the French word for “sad.” The spelling is used for both boys and girls, with actor Tristin Mays providing a familiar feminine example.

Origin and sound

Tristan is usually traced to the older Pictish name Drustan, a diminutive of Drust. Its passage into French storytelling may have involved Welsh forms such as Trystan or Drystan.

The French association with triste, “sad,” fits the tragic story but is not a secure original translation. Tristin belongs to that same name family rather than being a separate word with a newly established meaning.

Tristin is pronounced TRIS-tun in English, with stress on the first syllable. Tristan, Tristen, and Trystan are related spellings. The i in the final written syllable usually remains unstressed rather than sounding like the first i.

The complete name has two syllables and is often used without a nickname. Tris could be chosen informally from its opening.

The Tristan story

In the medieval tales, Tristan is sent to Ireland by his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, to bring back Iseult as the king's bride. On the return journey, Tristan and Iseult drink a potion that makes them fall in love.

Their relationship creates a conflict between personal feeling and loyalty to Mark. Different versions develop the story in different ways, but the central triangle remains one of the best-known patterns in European romance.

Later retellings connect Tristan with King Arthur's world. The story circulated widely enough for the name to continue appearing across languages and centuries, producing several modern spelling forms.

Tristin therefore carries a literary family history even when a modern bearer has no direct connection with the medieval tale.

Tristin Mays

Actor Tristin Mays played Riley Davis in the television series MacGyver from 2016 to 2021. The role made her given name visible over several seasons of an ensemble action series.

Her earlier television work included Shaina in Gullah, Gullah Island and Bernice in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. She also appeared as Sarah Nelson in The Vampire Diaries.

Those credits connect the exact Tristin spelling with programmes for different audiences and age groups. Tristin is the performer's given name, while the characters she plays have their own separate names.

Mays's career provides a clear feminine public example alongside the larger masculine record for Tristin in American statistics.

American popularity

The largest annual boys' total for Tristin in the United States SSA series was 630 in 1996, when it ranked #374. That year also produced the largest girls' total, 157, ranking #1,161.

In 2025, 37 boys received the spelling and it ranked #3,231. Tristan, Tristen, and Trystan are counted separately despite their close relationship.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Wiktionary and Wikipedia material is adapted with attribution under CC BY-SA 4.0 where applicable. American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling; name-sex-year totals below five are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Tristin?

In 2025, Tristin ranked #3,231 among boys in the United States, with 37 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for boys in 1981; its largest annual count was 630 in 1996. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Tristin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 46,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,231
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tristin 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 2025 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tristin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tristins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tristin was born before 2004 — so the typical Tristin is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,785
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (4,457).

Is Tristin 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
−279
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,165
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,167
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.9%
Peak was 1996 (630)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#374
1996

Spellings of Tristin

Tristin is not the most common spelling — Tristan is, with 42.4% against Tristin's 3.3%.

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 Tristin is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Tristin was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 33,002 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 14,286
  2. 2Missouri1 in 16,667
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 16,667
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 20,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 25,000
  6. 6Nevada1 in 25,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Where Tristin is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Tristin was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 110,325 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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. Tristin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tristin around the world

Where Tristin 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
    2002–2009
    #3,744
    in 2009
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2010
    #387
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #601
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #1,412
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1971–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tristin

People whose public names include Tristin, 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.

Tristin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,231
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,165
Best rank ever
#374
1996
Peak year
1996
630 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,785
Count in 2025
37

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,161
1996
Peak year
1996
157 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
2,827
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tristin

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

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Names with a curve like Tristin

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

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Sibling names for Tristin

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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