girls:
660 births since 1983
#5056 (12th percentile)
boys:
4.5k births since 1982
#1811 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1982
#3808 (51st percentile)
The name Trystan is the #3,808 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,133 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 50.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,811 (60.5% percentile) for all time with 4,473 births since 1982. For girls, it ranks #5,056 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 660 births since 1983.
Trystan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for boys and 1983 for girls).
The name Trystan has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Trystan were boys.
For boys, Trystan reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 24.3% percentile (ranked #666) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 109 births per million (ranked 24.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Trystan ranks #886 for boys (2.7% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 15.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Trystan reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #818) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Trystan".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Tristan. View all variations of Tristan.
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Trystan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Trystan is pronounced as TRIH-stuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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