Trista comes from the Celtic / Latin tradition, meaning Noise, tumult / sad, melancholy.
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How popular is Trista?
1984peak year
Today, Trista is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #7612), with only about 20 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1984, 1,215 babies were given the name (ranked #214 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 1980s. Trista has been declining in recent years. In all, around 12,463 babies have been registered as Trista since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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