Girl name#1,248 of girl names
Trista
Pronounced T R IH1 S T AH0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 1984
- 65 years in use
How popular is Trista?
Trista is a girls' name, and first appears in 1960. It has been given to 12,463 children — the 1,248th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 162 births across the past decade, against a peak of 1,215 in a single year. That peak was in 1984.
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- T R IH1 S T AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Trista
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Trista
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Trista?
- Trista ranks 1,248th among girls' names in US records, with 12,463 births since 1960. Over the past decade it accounts for 162.
- Is Trista a unisex name?
- No. Trista is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Trista most popular?
- 1984, when 1,215 children were given the name. It has been in use for 65 years and is still recorded as of 2024.