Tristan

Tristan is the 7,837th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,058 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 73,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,058
Rank: 7,837th
How common: 1 in 73,700
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tristan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 87.6%
White, not Hispanic 10.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Tristan

Flora Tristan (1803–1844)French writer and suffragist
Diego Tristán (born 1976)Spanish footballer
Frédérick Tristan (1931–2022)French writer
Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon (1783–1853)French army commander
Pío de Tristán (1773–1860)Viceroy of Peru

People named Tristan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tristan

Also a first name

Tristan has been given to 130,794 American babies as a first name since 1946, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.