Message: "Tristan and Tristian"

[Facts] Tristan and Tristian

by Lissa (guest)

3/21/2002, 1:43 PM

Are Tristan and Tristian one in the same?

P.S. Thank you to all of you for putting up with my questions!

- angi (guest) +1

3/22/2002, 1:36 PM

yes they are the same , you are naming a boy arent you? my daughters best which whom is a boy is named tristian!

- Lissa (guest)

3/22/2002, 3:05 PM

No, I'm not naming my son that. I was taking a personal name poll, and both of those names were entered, and I was curios if they were the same. :)

- Mike C

3/21/2002, 10:40 PM

Tristian is a variant of Tristan. A Google search revealed that it most commonly occurs on English-language web pages.

Perhaps it is intended to look more "Latin". There has always been an association with Latin tristis "sad, gloomy, dismal".

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