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Male (occasionally female) Welsh origin: "noise of arms", "resonance of iron" or "clanking sword"
French origin: "sad" or "sorrowful" |
Tristan or Tristram is a given name of Welsh origin. It originates from the Brythonic name Drust or Drustanus. It derives from a stem meaning "noise", seen in the modern Welsh noun trwst (plural trystau) and the verb trystio "to clatter". The name has also been interpreted as meaning "bold."
It became popularized through the character of Tristan, one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. The modern form is most likely influenced by the Latin root tristis (tant triste in the medieval French version of the myth), meaning "sad" or "sorrowful". The recent rise in the name Tristan is also attributed to a movie character of the same name played by actor Brad Pitt in the film Legends of the Fall.
Tristan is the 87th most popular baby name in the United States, and has been consistently among the top 1,000 names given to baby boys since 1971. There are various alternate forms of the name (popularity in parentheses): Tristen (1432), Triston (326), Tristin (536), Tristian (423), Trystan (5000), and Trysten (1).
(tristan) kings night of the round table
Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist
Tristan Davies, British news executive
Tristan Do, Thai-French footballer
Tristan Evans, British drummer
Tristan Gemmill, British actor
Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
Tristan Hahót, Hungarian noble
Tristan l'Hermite, French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages
Tristan Louis, French-American internet entrepreneur and writer
Tristan MacManus, an Irish dancer featured on Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)
Tristan Murail, a French composer
Tristan Nunez, American racing driver
Tristan Peersman, Belgian footballer
Tristan Plummer, English footballer
Tristan Prettyman, American singer-songwriter
Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
Tristan Thompson, a professional basketball player
Tristan Tzara, a Dadaist poet
Tristan Thomas, Australian athlete
Tristan Vautier, French racing driver
Tristan Wilds, an American actor
Tristan A. Farnon, an American webcomic author
Tristan de Clermont, a French-born knight who became Count of Copertino by dowry of Catherine of Taranto
Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish conquistador
Diego Tristán, a Spanish football player
François Tristan l'Hermite, who wrote as "Tristan"
Tristan J. Borromeo, vegan
Tristan D. Paustian, Lutheran Seminary student
Tristen J. Palmer, 1999 08 16
Tristen Gaspadarek, a singer-songwriter who performs as "Tristen"
Tristen Walker, a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League
Bianca Tristan
Tristan Farnon, in the works of James Herriot
Tristan Ludlow, the protagonist of Legends of the Fall, a 1994 drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison
Tristan Taylor, the English name of the character Hiroto Honda in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise
Tristen, a boy in The Fortress Series of fantasy novels by C. J. Cherryh
Tristran Thorne, a character in Neil Gaiman's novel Stardust. It was later adapted into a 2007 film, where the character's name was changed to Tristan, played by Charlie Cox
Tristan Smith, a character in Peter Carey's novel The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith.
Tristan Milligan in Degrassi
Tristan Duffy, a character in "American Horror Story: Hotel"
Tristan Dugrey, a character in "Gilmore Girls"
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