Trystan, for a girl

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Ever met one? It can be a girl's name apparently

I am searching for DD2's name, but this is an idle thread for curiosity's sake I must confess...

No, I've only ever come across it for a boy. I would probably pull a face if I met a female Trystan tbh.

Tristan (note the spelling) is a boys' name.

I've only ever heard of it as a boys name. (And Isolde is a lovely girls name that it always reminds me of).

In France Tristane is a fairly commone girls name. But Tristan/Trystan, with the emphasis on the first syllable, sounds male to me.

Cote, there are a variety of spellings and it is both a girl's and a boy's name (as you will see from the link) although obviously "Tristan" is a relatively commonly boy's name - hence the question

I like it, but I would spell it with an 'I' purely because being nicknamed Tryst would illicit so many jokes.

Yes I'd forgotten about Tristane, Shoobidoo, which is quite a nice name but I'm sure works better in France - or at least with a French accent. As opposed to getting Triss-stain....

No

See, I think shortening to Trist would mean sad in French (triste) - not a great association imo.

Don't like it for a boy and definitely not for a girl. Sorry.

No!

I like it for a boy but not a girl sorry op

No need for an apology BrandyB- as I said, this is an idle curiosity thread only.

I must say, I don't like it for a boy as have always found it a bit wet. I went to school with one and we used to call him Tristina

No way.

As for the link, it appears that not even the Americans use it as a name for girls.

Yes by all means call her Trystan, if you want her to be constantly mistaken for a boy, at the very least you will be known as one of those chavvy parents that make up names using random letters because they are too thick to spell real names!!!!!
Nice legacy to give your kids Chavy Mum!

Unless you put an 'e' or an 'a' at the end, it will be taken as a boy's name across Europe.

It can be a girl's name if you're naff.

It's a boy's name. Blachefleur, his mother named him that before dying in childbirth after her husband's ship came back with a black sail ('This dead man Rivalin of Loonois is killing me'). He lived a rather sad, miserable life and then died young, tragically.

You could go with Trista or Tristana, both female.

"Chavy Mum" ??

Nice one, "hotmum". Perhaps read the OP next time?

Funny you should say that Shoobidoo. I have been living France (hence the nickname) for over a decade and have never come across a "Tristane". Not once. I really don't think that it's a common girls' name in France.

No.
Why on earth would you want to name a DS Tristan, let alone a DD with terrible alternative spelling? V.pretentious, boarding chavy (think Chelsea Clinton). Only Tristan I've ever known was a moron, and a flaky one at that.

It's not a common name in France, I've never met one in over fifteen years, but there's Tristane Banoun who claimed to have been groped by DSK.

I knew a little girl called Trista years ago. Her parents named her Trista because they had lost a little boy called Tristram, IIRC

I always thought it was a pretty name.