Tristan Boy Name

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The name Tristan is of Welsh origin, and means riot or tumult. The table below indicates the number of times the name Tristan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Tristan**
Use of the Name Tristan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
50,232	50,232	49,265	38,561	17,831	7,034	3,423

The table below indicates the number of times the name Tristan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Tristan first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1971, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Tristan**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1971	871	88
1972	914	77
1973	959	71
1974	829	95
1975	792	111
1976	789	111
1977	790	118
1978	735	132
1979	668	164
1980	605	207
1981	416	394
1982	275	761	976	152
1983	248	847	899	169
1984	251	870	916	163
1985	222	1,058	895	178
1986	244	921	927	172
1987	248	930
1988	288	801
1989	312	764
1990	330	751
1991	337	721
1992	371	623
1993	409	567
1994	452	489
1995	121	3,087	721	284
1996	68	5,454	591	386
1997	92	4,188	827	251
1998	92	4,166	850	250
1999	99	3,835
2000	105	3,525
2001	108	3,566
2002	103	3,706	868	263
2003	113	3,611
2004	116	3,423
Totals:		50,232		2,268

During the last 125 years, parents have used Tristan as a boy's name about 95% of the time and less frequently (about 4% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Tristan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 34 times during the last 125 years.

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