Tristen

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tristen: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tristen: Recorded since 1996, it reached #451 in 2002, and it stood at #4,275 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#451highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1174
1998	#1110
1999	#1664
2000	#1703
2001	#1746
2002	#1651
2003	#1326
2004	#1280
2005	#1190
2006	#1016
2007	#1252
2008	#1403
2009	#1302
2010	#1055
2011	#1209
2012	#1313
2013	#1462
2014	#1721
2015	#2483
2016	#3478
2017	#3040
2019	#3411
2022	#3449
2023	#2813
2025	#4275

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

In 2010: #611 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1055 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2002–2010
Highest recorded position: #451 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 2002–2010).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #4275 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Tristen appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 314 births with the name.

Tristen across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tristen's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#1016 (2006)	#4275 (2025)	26 of 30	314 (1996–2025)	26 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#451 (2002)	#451 (2002)	#611 (2010)	4 of 9	14 (2002–2010)	4 (2009)

Tristen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tristen in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	40	4 of 10	10
2000sbusiest	139	10 of 10	14
2010s	119	9 of 10	13
2020s	16	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #451 in Republic of Ireland in 2002.

Tristen's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#4275	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1721	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1462	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1209	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1302	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1252	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1016	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1190	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1174	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#604	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Tristen is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Tristen, between 1996 and 2025, in 26 of those 30 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	26	#1016 in 2006
Republic of Ireland	2002–2010	4	#451 in 2002

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #451, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Trisha · #661, 30y
Tristan · #74, 49y
Tristian · #324, 17y
Trixie · #949, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Akeem · #451, 30y
Alin · #451, 21y
Ellie-Grace · #451, 22y
Goldie · #451, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Akeem · #451, 30y
Anderson · #451, 30y
Ayooluwa · #451, 12y
Goldie · #451, 23y

Tristen was ranked #451 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2002. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aaran#451
Adeshola#451
Akeem#451
Alexey#451

What is known about Tristen

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1996–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #451 in Republic of Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Tristen

Tristen at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tristen across 2 official records

Tristen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Tristen is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tristen

What is known about Tristen

Tristen at a glance

Tristen across 2 official records

Tristen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tristen