Krystin

Where Krystin comes from

The dictionaries list Krystin as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, one of the modern spelling variants of Kristin — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
Along the way
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #4,494 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Krystin Pellerin born
    Canadian actress
  3. 1989
    Peak, #887
    207 babies named Krystin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,614.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, one of the modern spelling variants of Kristin.
Namesakes
  • Krystin Pellerin · Canadian actress, born 1983

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.