Tristan Variants

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

They're not top contenders for future children or anything and I'm nowhere near getting pregnant anyway. These are just a couple of names that have been on my mind lately.

I've liked Tristan on and off for years, but lately, I've been thinking about some of the variants for it--namely, Tristram and Drystan.

WDYT?

Comments

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I have never liked Tristan, but I surprised myself recently by realizing I do like Tristram.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Despite loving the medieval text Tristan and Isolde, I really can't get on board with the name Tristan. It sounds like a tongue twister to me.

[mirhanda.livejournal.com]

I love Tristram, but I'm a Diablo II and Diablo III player.

[my-fair-kadie.livejournal.com]

Same here. All that comes to mind is Diablo.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I'm not really into video games. I take it there is a Tristram in the Diablo games?

[raze--the-rose.livejournal.com]

Tristram is a town in the games. Well, I can't speak for the first two, but New Tristram is in the third at least.

[maddiec24.livejournal.com]

I like Tristan, but Drystan makes me think of a cold medicine.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I was about to say the same thing.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

I don't like any of them, personally. Tristan has always sounded feminine to me. Probably because it rhymes with Kristen. Tristram and Drystan are just too strange for my taste.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I agree! The first time I ever saw the name Tristan was in our church directory. I was 10 years old at the time, and I honestly thought it was a girl's name. Then I met the family one Sunday and--surprise!--Tristan was a boy.

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Over the years I had two students named Tristan, they were both, and I hate to say this about 4 year olds but, airheads! Both of these boys, in my class years apart, could not understand directions, instruction or focus. I hate the name because of the problems I had with these two boys. Drystan is the same as Dristan and cold medicine and Tristam is like Jayden to me; a ghetto made up name.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

How is the cold medicine pronounced? Does it rhyme with Kristen? That's how I'm saying Drystan, but I guess I don't know that's how you say that for a fact. I'll have to see if I can find a pronunciation somewhere...

It's odd to me that you think Tristram sounds "ghetto." I thought it sounded very upper-crust English, and when I looked it up, behind the name said it's an English medieval variant of Tristan so it's a very old name! But everyone has their own associations and feelings about names.

[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

Dristan is pronounced driss-tan it could rhyme with "this man"

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Because it sounds made up, I have heard it before but it is so uncommon that to me it falls into that trendy made up name category. Names like Jayden, Adyson, like that names purposely misspelled and made up.

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

So Medieval England is ghetto? Lol, I agree with you about Jayden though.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

I had a student named Tristan as well. Good-looking kid but dumber than a sack of hammers.

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I said, they were both very cute boys, but it was like the brain was never switched on.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

a ghetto made up name

What does this mean? Seriously. I've seen this description used before to describe some names.

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

Tristan has never been one of my favorites, but I kind of like Tristram. I don't know how well it would work on a kid today, since it would often bee misread/heard as Tristan. Don't like Drystan at all.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

I see "Dry Stan." : /

[ahavah]

I like Tristan all right, but Tristram really trips me up. Not sure how I feel about Drystan. Is that pronounced like it rhymes with Tristan? I see Dry-stan as well, but I'm a big kushiel fangirl, so my mind actually keeps reading it as Drustan (an important character in said books) before I realize it's a y.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it rhymes with Tristan. The Dry-stan thing is something that I thought might be something people disliked. I'm pretty sure that's what I thought the first time I saw it, but now, I really like the spelling and don't see the dry-stan thing at all. Drustan is actually a form of Tristan as well.

[ahavah]

Oh, I know. My mind just kept trying to swap out the y for a u. Not that I like it better, but I'm just more familiar with it. I don't think I've ever seen Drystan at all, but I like it all right. Probably better than Tristram, tbh, but go with whatever you like best. :)

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm nowhere near being pregnant and these names wouldn't be current top contenders anyway. They're just ones that have been on my mind lately and I kind of like, but thanks for still being nice about the names even though you're not crazy about them. :)

[ahavah]

I like learning about names and different variations. I've never heard those, but I've been mulling over Drystan. I might not pick it for a child, but I enjoy writing and it could make a good character one day. I didn't know there was a medicine with a similar name, either.

[raze--the-rose.livejournal.com]

Drystan is WAY too close to Dristan, the cold medicine, for my taste. And I'm sure if I didn't play video games Tristram wouldn't raise any more of a flag than Tristan does, but I'm not a huge fan of either name.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Yeah, severaly people have mentioned the cold medicine. I'm not sure if I have ever heard of it or not. If I have, it was a long time ago. Anyway, it's unfortunate that they're so similar.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

I really don't like Tristram AT ALL. It sounds like the name of a huge corporation or a medicine. Plus, it's hard to say without getting tripped up or feeling like I'm mumbling.

Yeah, I hate it, sorry :-/

I don't like Drystan, either.

Tristan is a great name, I don't think it needs to be varied.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Drystan looks trendy and made up and reminds me of Drizzt... which is just something I'd never name my kid (although cool in my book).

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Tristam isn't that bad.

Drystan is fairly horrible.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I love Tristan and Tristram. See above for Drystan and cold medicine.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

Tristram is hard for me to say. Although I do know it is the original name of the main character in the Neil Gaiman book Stardust. In the movie they changed it to Tristan (probably because it's hard to say).