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Trystin vs Tryston

American parents have registered 1,338 Trystons since 1880, against 1,086 Trystins. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trystin against Tryston, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trystin Tryston

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 33 years in which either name was published, Tryston for 24 years and Trystin for 9 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Trystin Tryston
Total US births 1,0861,338
Most in one year 6579
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,1001,300
Median age today 2020
Peak year 20072005
Best rank 2,504th boys1,691st boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19921989
Girls / boys 283 / 80310 / 1,328

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.

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