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I don't agree ... Tristan doesn't mean "sad." It's the same name as Tristram and Drustan. And it's not gender neutral - some people seem to think it sounds like Kristin and have given it to girls, and you may be right that that's why people don't use it that much - but that doesn't make it a genderless name. Trista is a made-up name. I word-associate Tristan with "trust" rather than "tryst." Mallory isn't even really a first name, and I don't think it's comparable, since its familiarity as a first name originates with a 1980s TV show and not from well-known literature.

Tristan is entirely masculine, and there is a feminine version as well, not one for both.