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.
Where Kristian is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Colorado#309 · 1 in 2,443
- Maryland#376 · 1 in 3,687
- Arizona#382 · 1 in 3,077
- Washington#399 · 1 in 3,980
- California#411 · 1 in 3,819
Best ever in a state: #135 in Hawaii, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #309 | 10 | 1 in 2,443 |
| Maryland | #376 | 9 | 1 in 3,687 |
| Arizona | #382 | 10 | 1 in 3,077 |
| Washington | #399 | 9 | 1 in 3,980 |
| California | #411 | 76 | 1 in 3,819 |
| Oregon | #414 | 5 | 1 in 4,044 |
| Massachusetts | #416 | 7 | 1 in 6,288 |
| New York | #440 | 31 | 1 in 4,479 |
| Florida | #444 | 23 | 1 in 3,987 |
| Alabama | #453 | 6 | 1 in 4,519 |
| New Jersey | #497 | 9 | 1 in 6,085 |
| North Carolina | #534 | 8 | 1 in 5,940 |
| Virginia | #536 | 7 | 1 in 6,194 |
| Missouri | #550 | 5 | 1 in 7,592 |
| Ohio | #561 | 9 | 1 in 8,867 |
| Louisiana | #570 | 6 | 1 in 5,208 |
| Texas | #586 | 25 | 1 in 6,129 |
| Pennsylvania | #610 | 8 | 1 in 10,285 |
| Michigan | #674 | 7 | 1 in 10,145 |
| Illinois | #843 | 7 | 1 in 12,746 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 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 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 5,318 of them was named Kristian, which outranked 95.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 6,521 of them was named Kristian, which outranked 94.0% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).