Tristan (first name)

Tristan is a male, rarely female given name .

Origin, meaning and distribution

The name Tristan comes from the Celtic and is derived from drest or drust , which means (gun) noise .

The name is best known in the German-speaking world for Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde , based on the epic novel Tristan by Gottfried von Strasbourg , written around 1210 . This is based on the old French Tristan novel by Thomas d'Angleterre (around 1180). With Gottfried and - in his successor - with Wagner the name Tristan is taken from franz. ' Dreary ' = "sad" derived. Use as a female given name is rare.

Name bearer

Male first name

Tristan Anderson (* 1971), American photojournalist
Tristán Bauer (* 1959), Argentine film director, screenwriter and cameraman
Tristan Berger (* 1959), a German dramaturge, theater pedagogue, author and translator
Tristan Brübach (1984–1998), victim in the " Tristan murder "
Tristan Corbière (1845–1875), French poet
Tristão da Cunha (1460–1540), Portuguese admiral
Tristan Egolf (1971–2005), American writer
Tristan Göbel (* 2002), German actor
Tristan Gommendy (* 1980), French racing driver
Tristan Honsinger (* 1949), American free jazz cellist
Tristan Keuris (1946–1996), Dutch composer
Tristan L'Hermite (1601–1655), French writer
Tristan Materna (* 1972), German actor
Tristan Murail (* 1947), French composer
Tristan Rain (* 1972), Swiss painter and photo artist
Tristan Rogers (born 1946), Australian actor
Tristan Scherwey (* 1991), Swiss ice hockey player
Tristan Seith (* 1979), German theater and film actor
Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), French writer of Romanian origin

Female first name

Tristan Gale (* 1980), American skeleton pilot
Tristan Taormino (* 1971), American author and director

Further naming

Tristan da Cunha , archipelago in the South Atlantic
TRISTAN , particle accelerator
Tristan island rail , species of the genus Teichrallen