Trista
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name invented as a feminine form of Tristan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Trista is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 30K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 47K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Name invented as a feminine form of Tristan.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trista counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Trista | 18 |
| US United States | — | 11,025 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Trista | 339 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 5 | Trista | 111 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 115K | listed | Trista | 50 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 116K | listed | Trista | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 4 | Trista | 76 |
| CU Cuba | #514 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Trista | 7 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; the hanks-first-names-2001 register; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 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)
Trista 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 io, sad, sorrowful, mournful, cheerless, dispirited, doleful, gloomy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frp, feminine singular of tristo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine singular of trist
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, three hundred
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, sad, unhappy
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)
- Trista Sutterb. 1972USAmerican television personality
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,321 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 823 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 789 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 566 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 558 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 535 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 440 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 363 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 362 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 80 | #2,321 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2003 | 80 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Trista mean, and where does it come from?
- Name invented as a feminine form of Tristan. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Trista a male or female name?
- Trista is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Trista?
- In the etymology graph, Tristen and Tristin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Trista have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Trista in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trista.
- Where is Trista most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trista is densest in the United States — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trista?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,025 people named Trista in 2020, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Trista compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Trista is the 514th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tristaThe 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, “Trista” — the 514th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.