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Tristan

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Male Male Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) English form of the Celtic name Drystan

Celtic drest, drust = 'riot', 'tumult' [1]

2) Tristan is sometimes associated with the Latin word tristus = 'sad' [1]

3) English and French form of the Celtic name Tristram of unknown meaning [2]

Related Names

Tístram ♂
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 Faroese
Tístran ♂
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 Icelandic
Tristan ♂
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Triztan ♂
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 Danish Swedish
Trystan ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish

For female forms see Tristana

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Tristansson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Tristansdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Tristan
Genitive: Tristans
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Tristan
Accusative: Tristan
Dative: Tristani
Genitive: Tristans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Tristan
Genitive: Tristanin
Partitive: Tristania
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Tristan
Accusative: Tristan
Dative: Tristani
Genitive: Tristans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Tristan
Genitive: Tristans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Tristan
Genitive: Tristans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[6]
2496
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 2495
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
1286 1804 7 15 1279 1789
Iceland Iceland[8]
233 280
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
 398 0 0
n.a.
 398
Greenland Greenland[9]
10 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
410
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 410
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Tristan (m) Sources: [7][6][10][4]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Tristan (m) Sources: [11]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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