Christen

Where Christen comes from

Christen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1810
    Christen Købke born
    Danish artist
  2. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,398 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1982
    Peak, #405
    569 babies named Christen — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1988
    Christen Press born
    American soccer player
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #794.
  6. 2024
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Christen Press · American soccer player, born 1988
  • Christen Købke · Danish artist, 1810–1848
  • Christen C. Raunkiær · Danish scientist, 1860–1938
  • Christen Andreas Fonnesbech · Danish politician, 1817–1880
  • Christen Dalsgaard · Danish painter, 1824–1907

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.