Christan
Christan was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,068 among boys’ names; 2,944 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,840 Americans named Christan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christan?
#9,068 among boys’ names, 2025
Christan fell from #3,601 in 2015 to #9,068 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 4.7 per million.
95 babies in 1984, the peak
Christan peaked in 1984, when 95 babies were given it (33 boys, #1,726 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #9,068 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 8 | #9,147 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 13 | #6,605 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 12 | #6,897 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,042 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #9,759 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 21 | #4,662 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 16 | #5,579 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 24 | #4,241 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 30 | #3,607 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 30 | #3,601 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 27 | #3,805 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 34 | #3,196 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,444 | 33 | #3,308 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 40 | #2,911 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,381 | 38 | #3,025 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,004 | 49 | #2,566 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,795 | 44 | #2,755 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,282 | 40 | #2,929 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,535 | 54 | #2,318 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,058 | 55 | #2,184 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,470 | 55 | #2,131 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,824 | 49 | #2,207 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,915 | 39 | #2,509 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,295 | 45 | #2,248 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,177 | 47 | #2,140 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,725 | 46 | #2,065 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,848 | 46 | #2,040 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,112 | 42 | #2,098 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,437 | 33 | #2,383 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,457 | 36 | #2,209 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,108 | 29 | #2,559 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,996 | 38 | #2,092 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,614 | 33 | #2,254 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,662 | 36 | #2,047 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,257 | 27 | #2,492 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,964 | 30 | #2,248 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,049 | 24 | #2,440 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,067 | 20 | #2,648 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,960 | 24 | #2,302 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,835 | 21 | #2,437 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,753 | 33 | #1,726 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,700 | 12 | #3,436 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,587 | 14 | #3,132 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,756 | 13 | #3,244 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,101 | 14 | #3,121 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,161 | 17 | #2,684 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,525 | 11 | #3,432 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,631 | 9 | #3,891 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,189 | 13 | #2,969 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,180 | 13 | #2,926 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,770 | 17 | #2,372 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,008 | 18 | #2,233 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,332 | 13 | #2,679 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,533 | 17 | #2,296 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,610 | 14 | #2,521 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,814 | 15 | #2,227 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,251 | 8 | #3,147 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,679 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,664 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,706 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,960 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,667 | |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,006 | under 5 |
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 Christan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,944 Americans recorded as Christan, 46% are girls and 54% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 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 Christan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christan, and how old are they?
2,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,944 Americans ever recorded as Christan. The median Christan alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 3,663 people named Christan (1,370 women and girls, 2,293 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,817 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 409 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 931 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 234 |
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 Christan born?
The states with the most babies named Christan are Texas, California and New York, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 221 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 74 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 57 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Christan 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 484,687 babies since 1880, Christan is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 3,699 babies (<1%), 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 Christan
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 Christan and names like it
- Compare Christan and ChristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChristan peaked in 1984.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christan since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Christan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Christan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.