Krysten
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 255 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,038since 1960
Krysten over time
Rank among girls' names. Krysten has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 |
| 2006 | #3,734 | 41 |
| 2005 | #3,052 | 52 |
| 2004 | #2,927 | 54 |
| 2003 | #2,638 | 60 |
| 2002 | #2,199 | 75 |
| 2001 | #2,331 | 68 |
| 2000 | #1,632 | 108 |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 |
| 1998 | #1,508 | 112 |
| 1997 | #1,352 | 127 |
| 1996 | #1,269 | 137 |
| 1995 | #1,286 | 130 |
| 1994 | #1,137 | 157 |
| 1993 | #1,081 | 168 |
| 1992 | #1,016 | 185 |
| 1991 | #866 | 231 |
| 1990 | #836 | 235 |
| 1989 | #803 | 237 |
| 1988 | #734 | 255 |
| 1987 | #882 | 192 |
| 1986 | #896 | 182 |
| 1985 | #913 | 173 |
| 1984 | #1,225 | 106 |
| 1983 | #1,237 | 102 |
| 1982 | #1,399 | 87 |
| 1981 | #1,790 | 62 |
| 1980 | #2,128 | 48 |
| 1979 | #3,147 | 26 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 |
| 1974 | #3,212 | 21 |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Krysten! It came in at #5,696, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Krysten is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#387 · 1 in 2,925
- Arizona#517 · 1 in 3,346
- Virginia#548 · 1 in 4,819
- Maryland#567 · 1 in 4,904
- Michigan#637 · 1 in 6,281
Best ever in a state: #236 in New Hampshire, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #387 | 12 | 1 in 2,925 |
| Arizona | #517 | 7 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Virginia | #548 | 7 | 1 in 4,819 |
| Maryland | #567 | 5 | 1 in 4,904 |
| Michigan | #637 | 9 | 1 in 6,281 |
| Ohio | #656 | 10 | 1 in 6,794 |
| New Jersey | #739 | 6 | 1 in 6,999 |
| New York | #772 | 16 | 1 in 6,781 |
| Texas | #820 | 18 | 1 in 7,315 |
| Florida | #889 | 8 | 1 in 8,304 |
| Pennsylvania | #932 | 6 | 1 in 11,455 |
| California | #1,088 | 19 | 1 in 10,931 |
| Illinois | #1,097 | 6 | 1 in 11,823 |
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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 Krysten
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 312 spots in 1985 (#1,225 → #913)
- Biggest drop: 150 spots in 1992 (#866 → #1,016)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1988 at #734 (255 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1985–1991
- Highest: 1 in 6,984 girls born in 1988 were named Krysten (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 231,456 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 38.9% of all girls named Krysten (1,570) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 47 | #4,222 (1968) | #5,311 |
| 1970s | 184 | #2,830 (1973) | #3,762 |
| 1980s | 1,444 | #734 (1988) | #1,201 |
| 1990s | 1,570 | #836 (1990) | #1,216 |
| 2000s | 566 | #1,632 (2000) | #3,120 |
| 2010s | 197 | #4,336 (2013) | #7,017 |
| 2020s | 30 | #10,250 (2020) | #12,011 |
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.
Krysten in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 9,426 of them was named Krysten, which outranked 93.0% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).