Christan
Last seen for girls in 2012 at #16,869 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 53.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 33 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,578since 1959
Christan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,517 | 13 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | — | #10,799 | 6 | |
| 2020 | — | #9,554 | 7 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,639 | 21 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,540 | 16 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,224 | 24 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,596 | 30 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,591 | 30 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,787 | 27 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | — | #2,904 | 40 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #3,014 | 38 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #2,560 | 49 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,310 | 54 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #2,182 | 55 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #2,131 | 55 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #2,249 | 45 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #2,040 | 46 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #2,096 | 42 |
| 1996 | #3,429 | 33 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #2,456 | 52 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #3,098 | 37 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | #2,091 | 38 |
| 1992 | #2,612 | 47 | #2,253 | 33 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | #2,052 | 36 |
| 1990 | #2,258 | 56 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #1,965 | 65 | #2,245 | 30 |
| 1988 | #2,051 | 57 | #2,437 | 24 |
| 1987 | #2,065 | 53 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #1,952 | 56 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 | #2,427 | 21 |
| 1984 | #1,751 | 62 | #1,723 | 33 |
| 1983 | #1,700 | 64 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #1,584 | 74 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #1,754 | 64 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #3,147 | 26 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | #2,217 | 15 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | #3,107 | 8 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1959
The first year at least five boys were named Christan! It came in at #3,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 77 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #8,910)
- 644 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #8,910)
- 5,319 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1984 at #1,723 (33 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 34 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 36,091
- Highest: 1 in 36,091 boys born in 2004 were named Christan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,723 in 1984, was only 1 in 54,692 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 30.2% of all boys named Christan (477) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1997
- Mostly girls until 1996, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,619 |
| 1960s | 35 | #2,217 (1969) | #3,143 |
| 1970s | 142 | #2,216 (1973) | #2,777 |
| 1980s | 205 | #1,723 (1984) | #2,660 |
| 1990s | 366 | #2,040 (1998) | #2,223 |
| 2000s | 477 | #2,131 (2004) | #2,395 |
| 2010s | 293 | #2,904 (2011) | #3,778 |
| 2020s | 54 | #6,517 (2023) | #8,599 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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