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Trinity vs Tristyn

American parents have registered 88,192 Trinitys since 1880, against 4,465 Tristyns. Trinity is still ahead, with 734 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trinity against Tristyn, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trinity Tristyn

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

Trinity has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1921 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Trinity had 375 and Tristyn had 133.

Side by side

  Trinity Tristyn
Total US births 88,1924,465
Most in one year 5,729245
Babies in 2025 73441
Estimated living today 87,0004,400
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20042010
Best rank 48th girls1,256th boys
Rank in 2025 428th4,539th
First recorded 19211982
Girls / boys 85,348 / 2,8442,221 / 2,244

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.

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 Trinity Tristyn
England and Wales 2,58746

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: Trinity and Tristyn.