🔥Tristan

Celtic

"noise or sorrowful"

Tristan Origin and Meaning

The name Tristan is a boy's name of Celtic origin meaning "noise or sorrowful".

Tristan -- known through medieval legend and Wagnerian opera -- has a slightly wistful, touching air. This, combined with the name's popular "an" ending, makes Tristan very appealing to parents seeking a more original alternative to Christian.

One influence was the character Tristan Ludlow played by Brad Pitt in the 1994 movie Legends of the Fall, based on a Jim Harrison novel.

Tristan is a dragon-slaying hero of Celtic legend, whose story was incorporated into Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in which Tristan is one of the Knights of the Round Table, consumed by his doomed love affair with Queen Isolde. Wagner set the story to music in his opera Tristan und Isolde.

Tristan and its alternate form Tristram have been found in later lit as well. Tristram Shandy is a famous early comic novel by Laurence Sterne (in which the hero's father calls Tristram the worst name in the universe); Tristan is a major character in James Herriott's All Creatures Great and Small, and there is an eponymous novella by Thomas Mann.

Particularly popular in Canada, Tristan was chosen for their sons by Travis Tritt, Wayne Gretzky, Natasha Henstridge and, most recently, by Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth. Basketball player Tristan Thompson hails from Canada.

Other variants of Tristan include Tristen, Tristin, Triston and Tristian.

Tristan Rank in US Top 1000

# 253 in the US

Tristan Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 194 on Nameberry

Tristan Popularity

• 253 US 2023
• 194 Nameberry 2024
• 123 Canada 2023
• 313 Future 2028
• 221 England 2021
• 184 Germany 2016
• 61 Iceland 2021
• 198 Switzerland 2019
• 64 Slovenia 2023

20 Names Similar to Tristan

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Tristan.

• Kieran
• Sebastian
• Julian
• Rhys
• Declan
• Dylan
• Gabriel
• Xavier
• Logan
• Liam
• Jasper
• Caleb
• Damian
• Caspian
• Spencer
• Lucas
• Isolde
• Holden
• Dominic
• Rowan

Famous People Named Tristan

• Tristan Tzara (born Samuel Rosenstock) Romanian,French avant,garde artist
• Tristan Trevor James Thompson Canadian basketball player
• Tristan Paul Mack Wilds American actor
• Tristan Bowen American soccer player
• Tristan John Gemmill English actor
• Tristan Somchai Do Thai footballer
• Tristan Thomas Australian Olympic hurdler
• Tristan Gommendy French racing driver
• Tristan MacManus Irish dancer on TV's "Dancing with the Stars"
• Tristan Oliver Vance Evans drummer for British band The Vamps
• Tristan Vautier French racing driver
• Tristan Rogers Australian,American actor
• Tristan Bernard French playwright
• Tristan Dean Resnick American child model
• Tristan Tales American YouTuber
• Jared Tristan Padalecki American actor
• Tristan Bates (b. 1971) son of actors Alan Bates and Victoria Ward; twin brother of actor Benedick Bates
• Tristan James Tritt (b. 1999) son of singer Travis Tritt
• Tristan Blackley (b. 2005) son of baseball player Travis Blackley
• Tristan Wohlert (b. 2006) son of singers Johan Wohlert of Mew and Pernille Rosendahl of Swan Lee
• Tristan Cousins (b. 2007) son of skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Steven Cousins
• Tristan Ayley (b. 2010) son of bassist Mike Ayley of Marianas Trench
• Tristan Milos Trump (b. 2011) son of Don Trump, Jr.; grandson of U.S. President Donald Trump
• Tristan Blaise Lagle (b. 2011) son of TV personalities Hope Harbert and Ben Lagle of "16 and Pregnant"
• Tristan Hemsworth (b. 2014) son of actor Chris Hemsworth; twin of brother Sasha

Tristan in Pop Culture

• Nikolaj Tristan Johan von Henningsen de Bretteville main male character in Scarlett Avery’s book “Undeniable Seduction”.
• Tristan Cornish knight in the 12th century legend "Tristan and Isolde"
• Tristan Thorn character in Neil Gaiman's "Stardust"
• Tristan Ludlow character in movie "Legends of the Fall"
• Tristan DuGray character on TV's "Gilmore Girls"
• Tristan Farnon a main character in James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small" series
• Tristan Milligan character on TV's "Degrassi: The Next Generation"
• Tristan McLean character in the Heroes of Olympus series
• Tristan Berkeley character in The Mother,Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
• Lord Tristan Kent character in Karen Lynch's Relentless Series
• Tristan Mckie character in the YouTube series "Most Popular Girls in School"
• Tristan de Martel character on TV's "The Originals"
• "Tristan" song by Patrick Wolf