Kristian
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,145 for boys in 2025, 184 births
Given to boys 75.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 607 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 20,814since 1942
Kristian 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 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,145 | 184 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #1,122 | 190 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #1,019 | 214 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #953 | 238 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #910 | 252 |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | #822 | 279 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #794 | 289 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #732 | 326 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 | #707 | 346 |
| 2016 | #3,464 | 45 | #689 | 359 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #677 | 375 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 | #655 | 400 |
| 2013 | #3,076 | 53 | #620 | 400 |
| 2012 | #3,006 | 56 | #580 | 442 |
| 2011 | #3,452 | 46 | #551 | 462 |
| 2010 | #2,841 | 61 | #541 | 468 |
| 2009 | #2,270 | 86 | #508 | 531 |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 | #502 | 546 |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 | #475 | 565 |
| 2006 | #2,353 | 80 | #465 | 578 |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 | #446 | 580 |
| 2004 | #2,087 | 87 | #484 | 512 |
| 2003 | #1,985 | 91 | #438 | 573 |
| 2002 | #1,624 | 114 | #457 | 533 |
| 2001 | #1,595 | 116 | #421 | 587 |
| 2000 | #1,245 | 157 | #419 | 591 |
| 1999 | #1,154 | 169 | #415 | 566 |
| 1998 | #998 | 200 | #401 | 610 |
| 1997 | #927 | 214 | #389 | 614 |
| 1996 | #757 | 279 | #384 | 607 |
| 1995 | #782 | 254 | #397 | 583 |
| 1994 | #708 | 294 | #442 | 509 |
| 1993 | #826 | 239 | #428 | 520 |
| 1992 | #699 | 309 | #448 | 493 |
| 1991 | #647 | 341 | #511 | 377 |
| 1990 | #625 | 357 | #570 | 315 |
| 1989 | #658 | 310 | #676 | 218 |
| 1988 | #832 | 217 | #677 | 193 |
| 1987 | #714 | 254 | #695 | 171 |
| 1986 | #688 | 265 | #655 | 186 |
| 1985 | #657 | 276 | #649 | 182 |
| 1984 | #792 | 202 | #679 | 162 |
| 1983 | #1,212 | 105 | #747 | 134 |
| 1982 | #1,074 | 133 | #657 | 175 |
| 1981 | #1,025 | 140 | #710 | 148 |
| 1980 | #1,260 | 103 | #714 | 148 |
| 1979 | #1,832 | 58 | #566 | 230 |
| 1978 | #1,862 | 53 | #531 | 242 |
| 1977 | #2,124 | 44 | #468 | 297 |
| 1976 | #2,210 | 38 | #497 | 257 |
| 1975 | #1,807 | 51 | #486 | 274 |
| 1974 | #1,598 | 59 | #524 | 229 |
| 1973 | #1,647 | 55 | #509 | 233 |
| 1972 | #1,627 | 55 | #546 | 212 |
| 1971 | #1,754 | 51 | #539 | 221 |
| 1970 | #1,931 | 44 | #625 | 168 |
| 1969 | #1,835 | 45 | #661 | 142 |
| 1968 | #2,024 | 35 | #834 | 76 |
| 1967 | #1,881 | 39 | #910 | 63 |
| 1966 | #2,249 | 28 | #1,090 | 46 |
| 1965 | #3,402 | 14 | #1,189 | 41 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | #1,236 | 39 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | #1,100 | 48 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #1,423 | 30 |
| 1961 | — | #1,388 | 33 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,295 | 37 | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | #1,172 | 44 |
| 1958 | — | #2,026 | 16 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,093 | 15 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,887 | 17 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,099 | 14 | |
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| 1951 | — | #2,495 | 10 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kristian! It came in at #3,560, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1946, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kristian
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,122 → #1,145)
- 323 spots since 2020 (#822 → #1,145)
- 468 spots since 2015 (#677 → #1,145)
- Biggest jump: 180 spots in 1967 (#1,090 → #910)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 1980 (#566 → #714)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1996 at #384 (607 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1967–2022
- Highest: 1 in 3,070 boys born in 1997 were named Kristian (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,283 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #384 in 1996, was only 1 in 3,121 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.9% of all boys named Kristian (5,596) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1990, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 24 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,310 |
| 1950s | 141 | #1,172 (1959) | #2,283 |
| 1960s | 555 | #661 (1969) | #1,113 |
| 1970s | 2,363 | #468 (1977) | #529 |
| 1980s | 1,717 | #649 (1985) | #686 |
| 1990s | 5,194 | #384 (1996) | #439 |
| 2000s | 5,596 | #419 (2000) | #462 |
| 2010s | 3,867 | #541 (2010) | #655 |
| 2020s | 1,357 | #822 (2020) | #995 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kristian in 1942
Top boys' names in 1942
More about 1942
boys
1,381,161 boys got a published name in 1942; 1 in 276,232 of them was named Kristian, which outranked 12.0% of the 4,044 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 484 names at #3,560; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.