Krista

#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #7,422
Given to girls 99.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1986 · 3,054 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
1 yr
of 146 years
Total births · girls
73,715
since 1937

Krista over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201953peak #93, 1986girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,64541
2024#4,56030
2023#3,27449
2022#3,07353
2021#3,25049
2020#2,68262
2019#2,65165
2018#2,38776
2017#2,14489
2016#2,03397
2015#1,677127
2014#1,746119
2013#1,529143
2012#1,307180
2011#1,276186
2010#1,110222
2009#1,024255
2008#890312
2007#807355
2006#695408
2005#590482
2004#541528
2003#440680
2002#474595
2001#449621
2000#408695
1999#366806
1998#317944
1997#2681,078
1996#2211,312
1995#2021,467
1994#1821,627
1993#1661,896
1992#1502,028#7,4226
1991#1551,911
1990#1452,144
1989#1372,224#6,2297
1988#1122,566#7,2705
1987#1082,550#4,5739
1986#933,054#3,88211
1985#1342,183#5,7856
1984#1332,170#4,2159
1983#1422,043#3,88410
1982#1731,695#5,0037
1981#1531,848
1980#1212,531#4,9407
1979#1302,212#6,0565
1978#1561,733#3,8579
1977#1551,762#4,1648
1976#1621,593#4,4187
1975#1591,695#5,4645
1974#1521,808#3,8378
1973#1431,954#5,1015
1972#1422,049#2,81912
1971#1342,412#4,9075
1970#1362,589#3,8367
1969#2271,321
1968#2561,049
1967#291863
1966#300846
1965#328752
1964#390613
1963#421527
1962#457447
1961#527344
1960#550314
1959#562302
1958#636239
1957#631238
1956#615241
1955#592241
1954#619216
1953#688172
1952#717154
1951#779129
1950#827111
1949#1,12165
1948#1,54836
1947#1,51039
1946#1,67828
1945#3,3888
1944#4,5745
1943#4,1966
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First appearance
1937

The first year at least five girls were named Krista! It came in at #3,800, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1938–1942, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 915 spots since 2024 (#4,560#3,645)
  • 963 spots since 2020 (#2,682#3,645)
  • 1,968 spots since 2015 (#1,677#3,645)
  • Biggest jump: 294 spots in 1950 (#1,121#827)
  • Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2009 (#890#1,024)
Rise & fade · girls
49 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1937
  • Peaked 1986 at #93 (3,054 births)
  • Births halved by 1995, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 1 yr · 1986
  • Top 1,000: 59 yrs · run 1950–2008
Share of babies · girls
1 in 562
  • Highest: 1 in 562 girls born in 1986 were named Krista (0.18%)
  • Latest: 1 in 39,202 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 31.0% of all girls named Krista (22,864) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s6#3,800 (1937)#3,800
1940s187#1,121 (1949)#2,574
1950s2,043#562 (1959)#667
1960s7,076#227 (1969)#375
1970s19,807#130 (1979)#147
1980s22,864#93 (1986)#131
1990s15,213#145 (1990)#217
2000s4,931#408 (2000)#632
2010s1,304#1,110 (2010)#1,786
2020s284#2,682 (2020)#3,414

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.

Krista in 1953

girls
#688
172 births · 1 in 10,938 girls

Top girls' names in 1953

  1. #1Mary64,389
  2. #2Linda61,281
  3. #3Deborah52,199
  4. #4Patricia51,019
  5. #5Susan44,297
  6. #6Barbara38,473
  7. #7Debra36,856
  8. #8Nancy30,620
  9. #9Karen29,858
  10. #10Pamela25,760
  11. #688Krista172
More about 1953

girls

1,881,301 girls got a published name in 1953; 1 in 10,938 of them was named Krista, which outranked 89.4% of the 6,497 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Krista
  1. #685Cornelia174
  2. #685Marylou174
  3. #687Freida173
  4. #688Krista172
  5. #688Eddie172
  6. #688Janna172
  7. #688Karon172
  8. #697Charleen171
  9. #697Jodie171
  10. #697Lottie171

Tied with 8 names at #688; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1952
Risers
  1. 2,253Enola#3,201#948
  2. 885Lu#1,368#483
  3. 749Joni#1,046#297
  4. 553Brooke#1,351#798
  5. 531Lorri#1,430#899
Fallers
  1. 274Roseanna#808#1,082
  2. 253Georgie#946#1,199
  3. 218Pandora#783#1,001
  4. 204Fonda#822#1,026
  5. 195Brinda#935#1,130

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1953