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Tristen vs Trixie

American parents have registered 25,554 Tristens since 1880, against 1,373 Trixies. Tristen is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tristen Trixie

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 129 years in which either name was published, Trixie for 80 years and Tristen for 49 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tristen Trixie
Total US births 25,5541,373
Most in one year 1,47834
Babies in 2025 12111
Estimated living today 25,000880
Median age today 2150
Peak year 19961971
Best rank 249th boys2,296th girls
Rank in 2025 1,509th8,860th
First recorded 19681893
Girls / boys 4,182 / 21,3721,373 / 0

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 Trixies alive today are over 50; half the Tristens are over 21. That is 29 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 Tristen Trixie
England and Wales 314426
Belgium 1427

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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Related comparisons

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