Tristy

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Tristy has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1979, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Tristy, 1991

1 in 779,000

Tristy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Tristy?

Tristy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 779,000
5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 375,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
539,676 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tristy 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 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tristy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tristys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tristy was born before 1978 — so the typical Tristy is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
69
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Tristy 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 1979 (9)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,287
1979

Spellings of Tristy

Tristy is not the most common spelling — Christy is, with 16.6% against Tristy's 0.01%.

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.

Tristy around the world

Where Tristy 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.

  • South Australia
    1974–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tristy 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
—
Best rank ever
#7,287
1979
Peak year
1979
9 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tristy

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

Sibling names for Tristy

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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