Kristan
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 89.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1985 · 242 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,545since 1945
Kristan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | #8,819 | 8 | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,457 | 62 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #2,070 | 68 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #1,368 | 123 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #1,306 | 127 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #1,259 | 136 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #1,325 | 126 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #1,260 | 136 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #1,090 | 165 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #957 | 196 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #877 | 210 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #902 | 192 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #882 | 192 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #770 | 223 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #712 | 242 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #781 | 206 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #838 | 183 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #747 | 223 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #798 | 202 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #796 | 205 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #1,085 | 126 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | #1,307 | 92 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #1,433 | 73 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #1,162 | 99 | #1,948 | 24 |
| 1974 | #1,048 | 113 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #1,058 | 109 | #2,513 | 15 |
| 1972 | #1,065 | 108 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #1,003 | 124 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #939 | 136 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #1,042 | 110 | #2,217 | 15 |
| 1968 | #1,042 | 100 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #1,046 | 97 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #1,368 | 64 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #1,366 | 65 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #1,433 | 62 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,738 | 44 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #2,163 | 30 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #2,004 | 34 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #1,855 | 37 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #1,985 | 32 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #1,588 | 45 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,074 | 24 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #2,391 | 18 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,769 | 14 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,060 | 17 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kristan! It came in at #2,060, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2014, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kristan is popular in 1945
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#825 · 1 in 13,918
Best ever in a state: #230 in Arkansas, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #825 | 6 | 1 in 13,918 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kristan
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2019
- Biggest jump: 289 spots in 1980 (#1,085 → #796)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 1991 (#957 → #1,090)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1985 at #712 (242 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1980–1990
- Highest: 1 in 7,111 girls born in 1985 were named Kristan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 335,673 girls born in 2019 (0.00%)
- 37.5% of all girls named Kristan (2,078) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 64 | #2,060 (1945) | #2,846 |
| 1950s | 184 | #1,588 (1958) | #3,013 |
| 1960s | 643 | #1,042 (1969) | #1,506 |
| 1970s | 1,061 | #939 (1970) | #1,148 |
| 1980s | 2,078 | #712 (1985) | #810 |
| 1990s | 1,181 | #957 (1990) | #1,599 |
| 2000s | 266 | #2,457 (2000) | #5,623 |
| 2010s | 68 | #9,231 (2010) | #11,740 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kristan in 1945
Top girls' names in 1945
More about 1945
girls
1,307,090 girls got a published name in 1945; 1 in 76,888 of them was named Kristan, which outranked 60.7% of the 5,242 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,993Waneta18
- #1,993Wilhelmenia18
- #1,993Wylene18
- #2,060Kristan17
- #2,060Alena17
- #2,060Aloha17
- #2,060Alverta17
- #2,149Alease16
- #2,149Aleda16
- #2,149Antonina16
Tied with 88 names at #2,060; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 395Bernardine#937 → #1,332
- ↓ 386Joella#988 → #1,374
- ↓ 342Venita#937 → #1,279
- ↓ 275Magdalene#867 → #1,142
- ↓ 249Alpha#964 → #1,213
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.