Tritan

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tritan has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2007, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Tritan, 2017

1 in 511,000

Tritan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tritan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tritan means

Tritan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tritan is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 37 boys were recorded with the name Tritan between 2002 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #9,703 in 2007.

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.

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How common is Tritan?

Tritan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 511,000; 7 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 264,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 354,210 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tritan 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 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tritan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tritans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tritan was born before 2012 — so the typical Tritan is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 37; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Tritan 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2007 (8)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,703; 2007

Spellings of Tritan

Tritan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 83.4% against Tritan's <0.01%.

Brian83.4%1,173,735
Tristan8.8%124,243
Tristen1.5%21,372
Truman1.1%15,947
Triston0.82%11,602
Tristin0.70%9,785
Tristian0.57%7,960
Arian0.48%6,712

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.

Tritan 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: —
Best rank ever: #9,703; 2007
Peak year: 2007; 8 that year
First recorded: 2002
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 37
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tritan

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

Trinay Trison Neytan Trishiv Tritt Trisha Triumph Neitan Eastan Trisden Trine Trinidy Trishan Tricia Trivon Trina Ehitan Tripper Elnatan Destan Trintin Trigo Tripton Westan

Sibling names for Tritan

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

For a sister

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Davian

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