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Triana vs Tristen

American parents have registered 25,554 Tristens since 1880, against 1,063 Trianas. Tristen is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Triana against Tristen, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Triana Tristen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Tristen for 58 years and Triana for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Triana Tristen
Total US births 1,06325,554
Most in one year 631,478
Babies in 2025 8121
Estimated living today 1,00025,000
Median age today 2521
Peak year 20061996
Best rank 2,778th girls249th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917th1,509th
First recorded 19591968
Girls / boys 1,063 / 04,182 / 21,372

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Trianas alive today are over 25; half the Tristens are over 21. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Triana Tristen
England and Wales 10314

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Triana and Tristen.