Tristram
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About Tristram
This version of Tristan, known to English Lit students from the novel Tristram Shandy, is rarely used in this country, but, though its similarity to the popular Tristan could prove confusing, still makes an interesting literary choice.
Baseball legend Tris Speaker was christened Tristram and the protagonist of the Anthony Burgess novel The Wanting Seed is Tristram Foxe.
Pronounced TRIS-tram.
As of October 2026, Tristram ranked #10893 in US births in 2009 SSA, peaked at #3299 in 1969.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Tristram on lists
Famous Tristrams
- Tristram Risdon
English antiquarian and topographer
- Tristram Julian William Hunt
British historian and politician
- Tristram Ogilvie Cary
English,Australian composer
- Tristram Dalton
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
- Tristram Shapeero
English TV director
- Tristram Powell
English TV director
- Tristram Stuart
English author and activist
Tristram in pop culture
- "Tristram Shandy
" novel by Laurence Sterne and its main character
- Tristram "Tristy" Phipps
character in "The Revenge for Love" (1937) by Wyndham Lewis
- Sir Tristram Shield
character in Georgette Heyer's novel "The Talisman Ring"
- Tristram Trustie
friend to Goodluck in Nicholas Udall's play Ralph Roister Doister (1551)
- Sir Tristram de Lyones
one of two title characters in the fifth book of Le Mort D'Arthur, "Tristram and Iseult"
- New Tristram
a human town in the Diablo video game series