Names / Boy names
Triton
Current rank
#4,845
and easing
All-time peak
#1,726
in 2014
First recorded
1990
in U.S. data
Children named
1,400
since 1990
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #1,726 in 2014 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
Triton first appears in American naming records in 1990, where it reads as a boys' name. It now sits outside the national top 1,000, which keeps it uncommon. Only about 1,400 children have carried it, making it genuinely rare.