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Triton

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Triton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
290.00% of boys
Peak year
201589 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1990
1,474people given the name
Babies named Triton, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,474 boys have been named Triton in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 89 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 51%.

By decade

Decadeboys named Triton
1990s99
2000s373
2010s747
2020s255

In 2015, its biggest year

Triton was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Triton

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.