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How popular is “Tristan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tristan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Tristan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Tristan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Tristan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Tristan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Tristan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tristan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 -100%
1962 27 0.000006691 5 22 -63%
1963 31 0.000007832 5 26 -68%
1964 17 0.000004373 17 -100%
1965 34 0.000009378 12 22 -29%
1966 42 0.000012084 8 34 -62%
1967 45 0.000013255 16 29 -29%
1968 65 0.00001924 16 49 -51%
1969 65 0.000018703 15 50 -54%
1970 84 0.000023291 21 63 -50%
1971 112 0.000032631 22 90 -61%
1972 106 0.000033726 29 77 -45%
1973 94 0.000031158 22 72 -53%
1974 128 0.000042105 33 95 -48%
1975 151 0.00005001 38 113 -50%
1976 147 0.000048446 37 110 -50%
1977 150 0.000047222 32 118 -57%
1978 170 0.000053562 38 132 -55%
1979 202 0.000060715 35 167 -65%
1980 250 0.000072579 42 208 -66%
1981 495 0.000143089 95 400 -62%
1982 914 0.00026055 152 762 -67%
1983 1024 0.000295668 169 855 -67%
1984 1036 0.000296954 163 873 -69%
1985 1239 0.000347145 178 1061 -71%
1986 1095 0.000307837 172 923 -69%
1987 1073 0.000297591 139 934 -74%
1988 944 0.000255477 141 803 -70%
1989 901 0.000234364 137 764 -70%
1990 893 0.000225934 140 753 -69%
1991 840 0.000215646 116 724 -72%
1992 738 0.000192124 116 622 -69%
1993 676 0.000179297 109 567 -68%
1994 588 0.000158164 96 492 -67%
1995 3372 0.000920769 284 3088 -83%
1996 5844 0.001602327 386 5458 -87%
1997 4448 0.001226781 251 4197 -89%
1998 4420 0.001201672 251 4169 -89%
1999 4038 0.001093163 194 3844 -90%
2000 3737 0.000988649 206 3531 -89%
2001 3772 0.001007643 197 3575 -90%
2002 3988 0.001066798 263 3725 -87%
2003 3862 0.001015696 228 3634 -88%
2004 3690 0.000965735 209 3481 -89%
2005 3777 0.000982354 186 3591 -90%
2006 5608 0.001417526 194 5414 -93%
2007 5534 0.001384302 194 5340 -93%
2008 5816 0.001479648 157 5659 -95%
2009 5493 0.001437892 144 5349 -95%
2010 4997 0.001352098 99 4898 -96%
2011 4839 0.001322929 108 4731 -96%
2012 4526 0.001237502 87 4439 -96%
2013 4091 0.001122154 76 4015 -96%
2014 3988 0.001075984 61 3927 -97%
2015 4006 0.001082436 80 3926 -96%
2016 3707 0.00101044 71 3636 -96%
2017 3358 0.000938987 50 3308 -97%
2018 3268 0.000929493 39 3229 -98%
2019 2596 0.000747926 27 2569 -98%
2020 2164 0.000647792 40 2124 -96%
2021 1857 0.000548119 35 1822 -96%
2022 1625 0.000480324 25 1600 -97%
2023 1405 0.000424318 26 1379 -96%
2024 1308 0.00039297 12 1296 -98%

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