Christa
Christa was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,597 among girls’ names; 32,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,700 Americans named Christa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 36 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Christa is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
Contraction of Christina and Christiana. Rare until the second half of the 20th century, reinforced by the German Christa.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christa?
#6,597 among girls’ names, 2025
Christa fell from #2,858 in 2015 to #6,597 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 10.6 per million.
1,518 babies in 1986, the peak
Christa peaked in 1986, when 1,518 babies were given it (1,513 girls, #178 among girls’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,597 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,318 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,470 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,050 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,815 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,911 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,026 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,300 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,316 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,543 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,858 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,619 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,388 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,103 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,354 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,013 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,760 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 160 | #1,471 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,310 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 190 | #1,262 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 187 | #1,219 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 242 | #983 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 266 | #896 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 270 | #853 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 274 | #836 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 294 | #781 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 326 | #691 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 366 | #633 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 417 | #561 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 475 | #503 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 522 | #473 | 0.30 |
| 1994 | 562 | #454 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 667 | #382 | 0.37 |
| 1992 | 756 | #344 | 0.41 |
| 1991 | 674 | #383 | 0.36 |
| 1990 | 706 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 1989 | 745 | #342 | 0.40 |
| 1988 | 925 | #272 | 0.52 |
| 1987 | 1,018 | #251 | 0.59 |
| 1986 | 1,513 | #178 | 0.88 |
| 1985 | 683 | #343 | 0.40 |
| 1984 | 740 | #319 | 0.44 |
| 1983 | 640 | #353 | 0.38 |
| 1982 | 640 | #360 | 0.38 |
| 1981 | 746 | #317 | 0.45 |
| 1980 | 1,021 | #252 | 0.61 |
| 1979 | 1,080 | #238 | 0.67 |
| 1978 | 892 | #262 | 0.58 |
| 1977 | 861 | #277 | 0.56 |
| 1976 | 937 | #252 | 0.64 |
| 1975 | 1,010 | #244 | 0.69 |
| 1974 | 946 | #269 | 0.64 |
| 1973 | 1,083 | #238 | 0.74 |
| 1972 | 1,121 | #243 | 0.74 |
| 1971 | 1,250 | #237 | 0.75 |
| 1970 | 1,213 | #255 | 0.69 |
| 1969 | 640 | #363 | 0.38 |
| 1968 | 519 | #410 | 0.32 |
| 1967 | 353 | #503 | 0.21 |
| 1966 | 321 | #526 | 0.19 |
| 1965 | 270 | #582 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 280 | #593 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 273 | #605 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 238 | #658 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 210 | #715 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 179 | #761 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 182 | #753 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 166 | #775 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 155 | #811 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 164 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 148 | #789 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 109 | #922 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 107 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 106 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 88 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 72 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 95 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,629 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,501 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,012 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,156 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,881 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,181 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,806 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,040 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,455 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,672 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,064 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,398 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,607 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,182 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,884 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,418 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christa has been given almost only to girls: 27 boys in 113 years of records.
Girls and boys named Christa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christa, and how old are they?
30,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 32,870 Americans ever recorded as Christa. The median Christa alive today is 45 years old; half are between 36 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 32,795 people named Christa (32,751 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 114 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 543 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Christa born?
The states with the most babies named Christa are California, Texas and New York, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,941 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 2,083 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 1,928 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 1,873 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,835 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 1,273 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,249 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,172 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 1,010 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 944 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Christa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christa is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1912 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Christa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 276,822 babies since 1880, Christa is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 106 babies (16%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Christa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Christa and names like it
- Compare Christa and ChristyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChrista peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christa since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Christa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Christa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.