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what do you think when you hear the name Tristan?

132 replies

jaffacakes21 · 02/06/2018 17:10

DH and I are really struggling with a name for our second DC due any day now. We both like Tristan but neither of us are completely convinced by it. I like that it is a traditional but uncommon name, and DH likes that it is Celtic.

My main concern at the moment is that if you google Tristan it comes up with loads of pages about Tristan Thompson and the Kardashians! I hate the thought of that being people's first thought when they hear the name.

What do you think about it?

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PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 02/06/2018 19:31

I’m with you OP on the associations.

I was properly in love for a long long time with a Tristan, I loved him unlike anyone I’ve ever loved. But it was just never ever meant to be. He never broke my heart and I knew we fundamentally weren’t compatible but he was a genius, a mad, funny, beautiful clever genius who I still think about too much.

Maybe that’s why I love the name so much.

LineysSummerMonths · 02/06/2018 19:27

Also, Tris is a great abbreviation / nn.

lljkk · 02/06/2018 19:07

Teen DS is a Tristan.
We were partly thinking of a friend (athletic scientist) when we named him.
DS is quite emotional and a marmite person, most people don't understand him at all. So of the thoughts above, he could tick the boxes for knob, scientist, clever, handsome, wet and... likely to live at home forever.

I actively dislike many of the supposed related names someone suggested.

IncidentalAnarchist · 02/06/2018 18:37

Cornwall

Chocolatedeficitdisorder · 02/06/2018 18:36

Tristan Farnon, brother of Siegfried.

peachypetite · 02/06/2018 18:33

Pretentious

Notonthestairs · 02/06/2018 18:33

I like sweetboykit's list of names but I'd remove Terence and add Jonathan.

Veh1970 · 02/06/2018 18:31

George and Mildred.

WicketWoo · 02/06/2018 18:29

Another vote for Stardust here (best film ever)

GinAndSonic · 02/06/2018 18:22

The gorgeous Charlie Cox in Stardust

Bunnygreys · 02/06/2018 18:20

A bit 90’s like Joel or Zach

mimibunz · 02/06/2018 18:19

Another Isolde. But there’s also That 90s Brad Pitt movie. A River Runs Through It?

fontofnoknowledge · 02/06/2018 18:19

When I hear Tristan I think posh rather annoying opinionated teen with an overbearing helicopter mother who makes a nuisance of herself until her mediocre at sport child is picked for plumb place in a good team.

We are all products of our childhood ... and you did ask. !

redfairy · 02/06/2018 18:18

george and mildred (slightly different with Tristram) or James Herriot but I am over 50.

Idgie · 02/06/2018 18:17

I like it.

Reythelastjedi · 02/06/2018 18:15

Totally cool IT bloke I worked with from Devon, long hair and great accent and really funny. Great name.

WhatMakesYouHappy · 02/06/2018 18:14

My son! Cornish.

BubbleBlowingBaby · 02/06/2018 18:13

I knew a Tristan who was a total, utter knob. So, for me the name is ruined Grin

smellfunny · 02/06/2018 18:13

Makes me think of sadness (since it sounds similar to Latin for sadness or sorrow). Not a particular fan of the name as a result...

robotcartrainhat · 02/06/2018 18:11

other names
Aldous
Ambrose
Alistair
Fabian
Lucien
Michael
Francis
Aubrey
Phinneaus
Atlas
Arthur
Cecil
Benedict
Quentin
Jasper
Ivor
Theodore

crayoladreamz · 02/06/2018 18:10

Sounds weak and wet to me but I don’t know why

Sleephead1 · 02/06/2018 18:09

James Harriet which is a good thing for me they are my favourite books

LineysSummerMonths · 02/06/2018 18:06

The handsome, clever, witty philosophy student I was at university with.

robotcartrainhat · 02/06/2018 18:06

I love that name!

Sophronia · 02/06/2018 18:04

& Isolde

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