Christain
Christain was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,922 among boys’ names; 2,417 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,300 Americans named Christain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christain?
#10,922 among boys’ names, 2025
Christain fell from #4,314 in 2015 to #10,922 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 3.5 per million.
100 babies in 1995, the peak
Christain peaked in 1995, when 100 babies were given it (80 boys, #1,310 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #10,922 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,191 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,374 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #9,916 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #9,758 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 14 | #6,154 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 8 | #8,977 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 17 | #5,328 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 19 | #4,977 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 23 | #4,314 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 30 | #3,546 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 29 | #3,592 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 34 | #3,239 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 34 | #3,250 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 44 | #2,741 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 55 | #2,354 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 60 | #2,208 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 47 | #2,614 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 54 | #2,317 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 63 | #1,984 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 61 | #1,973 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 55 | #2,054 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 72 | #1,645 | |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,889 | 86 | #1,441 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,935 | 88 | #1,407 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 82 | #1,419 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,307 | 86 | #1,357 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,928 | 67 | #1,536 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,229 | 72 | #1,432 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,877 | 80 | #1,310 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,972 | 49 | #1,773 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,720 | 58 | #1,554 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,313 | 64 | #1,431 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,677 | 58 | #1,499 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,543 | 44 | #1,776 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,376 | 32 | #2,155 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,345 | 29 | #2,146 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,986 | 16 | #3,086 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,237 | 27 | #2,105 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,096 | 20 | #2,515 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,600 | 24 | #2,171 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,805 | 7 | #5,013 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,197 | 16 | #2,856 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,333 | 15 | #2,917 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,984 | 14 | #3,120 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 14 | #3,032 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,222 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,645 | 15 | #2,805 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 11 | #3,299 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,287 | 20 | #2,216 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 16 | #2,474 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,647 | 27 | #1,700 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 20 | #2,025 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 19 | #2,134 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 15 | #2,412 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 13 | #2,432 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 12 | #2,466 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,552 | 12 | #2,369 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 11 | #2,489 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,328 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,131 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #2,927 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,387 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,327 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,321 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 6 | #3,627 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,031 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,558 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,614 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 7 | #3,184 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 12 | #2,267 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 11 | #2,390 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 6 | #3,374 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 6 | #3,943 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Christain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,417 Americans recorded as Christain, 13% are girls and 87% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Christain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christain, and how old are they?
2,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,417 Americans ever recorded as Christain. The median Christain alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 3,121 people named Christain (370 women and girls, 2,751 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,296 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 72 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 235 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 807 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 174 |
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 Christain born?
The states with the most babies named Christain are Texas, Georgia and California, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 147 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 144 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 76 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Christain is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christain is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1921 it was given 2.0 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 boys’ 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 Christain 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 484,139 babies since 1880, Christain is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 3,699 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Christain
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1920-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kelby | 5,582 |
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 Christain and names like it
- Compare Christain and ChristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChristain peaked in 1995.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christain since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Christain.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Christain alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.