Tristram

Medieval English variation of Tristan, “noise or sorrowful"

"noise or sorrowful"

Tristram Origin and Meaning

The name Tristram is a boy's name of English origin.

This version of Tristan, known to English Lit students from the novel Tristram Shandy, is rarely used in this country, but, though its similarity to the popular Tristan could prove confusing, still makes an interesting literary choice.

Baseball legend Tris Speaker was christened Tristram and the protagonist of the Anthony Burgess novel The Wanting Seed is Tristram Foxe. 

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Famous People Named Tristram

• Tristram Risdon English antiquarian and topographer
• Tristram Julian William Hunt British historian and politician
• Tristram Ogilvie Cary English,Australian composer
• Tristram Dalton U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
• Tristram Shapeero English TV director
• Tristram Powell English TV director
• Tristram Stuart English author and activist

Tristram in Pop Culture

• "Tristram Shandy " novel by Laurence Sterne and its main character
• Tristram "Tristy" Phipps character in "The Revenge for Love" (1937) by Wyndham Lewis
• Sir Tristram Shield character in Georgette Heyer's novel "The Talisman Ring"
• Tristram Trustie friend to Goodluck in Nicholas Udall's play Ralph Roister Doister (1551)
• Sir Tristram de Lyones one of two title characters in the fifth book of Le Mort D'Arthur, "Tristram and Iseult"
• New Tristram a human town in the Diablo video game series