what do you think when you hear the name Tristan?

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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?

Is it cornish? I didnt know that. It sounds a bit weak as a name.

George & Mildred .

It was on our short list for DS but we were put off by the various meanings of "noisy" and "sad", plus obviously the T&I story itself isn't very happy (same reason we're put off the name Isolde). Absent those things I still think it's a really lovely name but it got a very poor reception whenever we shared our short list (won't make that mistake twice!).

Stardust. Also I went to school with a Tristan- he was nice enough. I quite like it.

I really like it! One of my really good friends names too

A bright, cheerful, sporty but not overbearingly competitive good guy.

Posh and a bit wet. Sorry.

Although Tristan has become associated with Latin, French etc words meaning 'sad', it has a different origin. It's a version of Drust or Drustan, a Pictish name that probably means 'riot'. There was a Pictish king called Drust.
www.behindthename.com/name/drust

The Picts spoke a language related to Welsh and Cornish.

I like the name, my first thought was Tristan da Cunha, but I think he may have a lifetime of correcting people who want to call him Tristram.

I wouldn't worry about the Kardashians. I doubt they'll still be a thing when he reaches his teenage years.

I love it, but DH knows one too well so vetoed it like that it's a bit Celtic and unusual

I think ugh, because I've only ever known one Tristan and he was a douchebag

I don't like it sorry, rather wet.

Showing my age, but all it reminds me of is legends of the fall

Makes me of & Isolde too.

I wouldn't worry about the celebrity crap, by the time they're older none of it will be in people's minds anymore, people move on with celebrity culture very quickly.

Makes me think of*

Love it. Have a teenage cousin called Tristan and he's kind, funny and very creative.

There's a really lovely song called Tristan by a musician called Patrick Wolf, the name reminds me of that

All Creatures Great and Small. Tristan’s big brother was Siegfried.

Tristam Shandy and that bloody book. Having to write a long very boring essay about said book which is almost impossible to follow! I know it’s not the same name, but it always comes to mind.

And Tristan from the Gilmore Girls who was a bit of a douche. I kinda like the name though.

It's ok but will get shortened to Tris. AAGill used to go on about Tristans.

Da Cunha

Same as haverhill

I like the name.

Posh is what comes to mind.

Which I'm not saying is a bad thing.

Wet, very very wet. Sorry.

I have one! (Scottish for tumult, or chaos) Tristy is very sweet, thoughtful, cuddly and loving. Massively emapathic, so could potentially be classed as ‘wet’

Interestingly, a friend of mine has an Isolde...