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
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 3,054 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 73,715since 1937
Krista over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,645 | 41 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,250 | 49 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,651 | 65 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,387 | 76 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,144 | 89 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,033 | 97 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,677 | 127 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,746 | 119 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,529 | 143 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,307 | 180 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,276 | 186 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,110 | 222 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,024 | 255 | — | |
| 2008 | #890 | 312 | — | |
| 2007 | #807 | 355 | — | |
| 2006 | #695 | 408 | — | |
| 2005 | #590 | 482 | — | |
| 2004 | #541 | 528 | — | |
| 2003 | #440 | 680 | — | |
| 2002 | #474 | 595 | — | |
| 2001 | #449 | 621 | — | |
| 2000 | #408 | 695 | — | |
| 1999 | #366 | 806 | — | |
| 1998 | #317 | 944 | — | |
| 1997 | #268 | 1,078 | — | |
| 1996 | #221 | 1,312 | — | |
| 1995 | #202 | 1,467 | — | |
| 1994 | #182 | 1,627 | — | |
| 1993 | #166 | 1,896 | — | |
| 1992 | #150 | 2,028 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #155 | 1,911 | — | |
| 1990 | #145 | 2,144 | — | |
| 1989 | #137 | 2,224 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #112 | 2,566 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #108 | 2,550 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #93 | 3,054 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #134 | 2,183 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #133 | 2,170 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #142 | 2,043 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #173 | 1,695 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #153 | 1,848 | — | |
| 1980 | #121 | 2,531 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #130 | 2,212 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #156 | 1,733 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #155 | 1,762 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #162 | 1,593 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #159 | 1,695 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #152 | 1,808 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #143 | 1,954 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #142 | 2,049 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #134 | 2,412 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #136 | 2,589 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #227 | 1,321 | — | |
| 1968 | #256 | 1,049 | — | |
| 1967 | #291 | 863 | — | |
| 1966 | #300 | 846 | — | |
| 1965 | #328 | 752 | — | |
| 1964 | #390 | 613 | — | |
| 1963 | #421 | 527 | — | |
| 1962 | #457 | 447 | — | |
| 1961 | #527 | 344 | — | |
| 1960 | #550 | 314 | — | |
| 1959 | #562 | 302 | — | |
| 1958 | #636 | 239 | — | |
| 1957 | #631 | 238 | — | |
| 1956 | #615 | 241 | — | |
| 1955 | #592 | 241 | — | |
| 1954 | #619 | 216 | — | |
| 1953 | #688 | 172 | — | |
| 1952 | #717 | 154 | — | |
| 1951 | #779 | 129 | — | |
| 1950 | #827 | 111 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,121 | 65 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,548 | 36 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,510 | 39 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,678 | 28 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
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| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 | — | |
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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.
See more about Krista
- 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)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1986 at #93 (3,054 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 1986
- Top 1,000: 59 yrs · run 1950–2008
- Highest: 1 in 562 girls born in 1986 were named Krista (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,202 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.0% of all girls named Krista (22,864) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 6 | #3,800 (1937) | #3,800 |
| 1940s | 187 | #1,121 (1949) | #2,574 |
| 1950s | 2,043 | #562 (1959) | #667 |
| 1960s | 7,076 | #227 (1969) | #375 |
| 1970s | 19,807 | #130 (1979) | #147 |
| 1980s | 22,864 | #93 (1986) | #131 |
| 1990s | 15,213 | #145 (1990) | #217 |
| 2000s | 4,931 | #408 (2000) | #632 |
| 2010s | 1,304 | #1,110 (2010) | #1,786 |
| 2020s | 284 | #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 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
girls
1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 675 of them was named Krista, which outranked 98.5% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 265,461 of them was named Krista, which outranked 29.4% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).