Trist
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME triste, tryster, tristur, OFr triste, tristre 'an appointed station in hunting'; first attested Peter ate Treste 1279 RH (Bk)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɹɪst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trist is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
Reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ME triste, tryster, tristur, OFr triste, tristre 'an appointed station in hunting'; first attested Peter ate Treste 1279 RH (Bk)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trist counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 170 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 4 | — | — |
| NR Nauru | — | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | listed | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Nauru Electoral Commission — Voter Registration Notifications (Government Gazette 2024-2025); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Trist is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Trust, faith.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, bad, wicked, evil, malevolent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, sad, mournful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, sad, unhappy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, boring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicholas Tristb. 1800USAmerican diplomat (1800-1874)
- Nicholas P. Tristb. 1905USdelegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1956 , 1960
- Philip John Owen Tristb. 1908botanist
- Eric Lansdown Tristb. 1909GBBritish scientist (1909–1993)
- Dan Tristb. 1992AUAustralian basketball player (born 1992)
- Robert TristBritish Royal Navy officer, lieutenant in 1808
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 170 | #23,670 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #113,592 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trist mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME triste, tryster, tristur, OFr triste, tristre 'an appointed station in hunting'; first attested Peter ate Treste 1279 RH (Bk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Trist?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹɪst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Trist have the most bearers?
- Trist is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Trist?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tristThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Trist”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.