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Triniti vs Tristen

American parents have registered 25,554 Tristens since 1880, against 2,994 Trinitis. Tristen is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Triniti 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

Tristen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Triniti had 5 and Tristen had 8.

Side by side

  Triniti Tristen
Total US births 2,99425,554
Most in one year 2201,478
Babies in 2025 30121
Estimated living today 3,00025,000
Median age today 1821
Peak year 20041996
Best rank 1,050th girls249th boys
Rank in 2025 4,546th1,509th
First recorded 19741968
Girls / boys 2,994 / 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 Tristens alive today are over 21; half the Trinitis are over 18. That is 3 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 Triniti Tristen
England and Wales 7314

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: Triniti and Tristen.