Tristan and Tristram

[17caterpillars1mouse]

What are your thoughts. I like both but think i prefer Tristram. My mum thinks it's awful though, it is really that bad? Do you know any Tristram's or Tristan's?

Its a great name, although do your research on Tristram vs Tristan.
Tristram is the medieval variant and predates Tristan.

On a plus i can usually keep my username as my actual name :-)

www.behindthename.com/name/tristram

Tristram as in Shandy? Awful book. Would make you look pretentious as parents.

Tristan isn't one that I'd choose, but at least it's easy to pronounce!

I know a 10 year old Tristyn, he’s a lovely boy.

Tristram is truly awful. The only way I can say it is if I treat it as two separate words Tris Tram.

I really like Tristan. Tristram makes me think of rams.

AA Gill used to use ‘Tristram’ to refer derisively to the type of men who commissioned and made TV programmes, so it always makes me think of him. That’s a fairly niche connotation, however.

I love Tristan.

My first association with Tristram is the knight from Tristram and Isolde.

I don’t think it’s completely unusable but it is super (SUPER) posh and a bit... pretentious (sorry, I’m not trying to be mean, I promise!). If I met a Tristram I’d probably go home to my husband that night and be like “I met a guy called TRISTRAM today! Can you believe that was his actual name?” And I say that as someone who loves weird names - my DS has a really unusual one.

Tristan, though, is lovely. A bit posh, he’s, but just a nice name.

It’s usually Tristan in the Isolde / Iseult stories. The variant Tristram is in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur and the Matthew Arnold poem.

I really hate both but I can’t say Tristram very well

Tristan

And for Brad Pitt in Legends of the fall. An amazing name for this reason.

The variant Tristram is in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur

That’s the one 👍🏻