Given name & surname
Tristano
“the nourished one”
Tristano is a masculine given name. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tristano goes back to a word meaning “the nourished one.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tristano through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 217 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tristano’s family of names
In Italian usage, Tristano has a feminine form in Tristana. In Italian usage, Tristano has a conventional equivalent in the English form Tristan.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Tristano has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Norwegian roots to each of them.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tristano
- Tristano CasanovaGerman actorborn 1983
- Tristano MartinelliItalian actor1557–1630
- Tristano PangaroItalian footballer (1922-2004)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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