Christen — #10305 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Christen

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,511 babies named Christen between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Christen currently holds the #10305 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 569 babies received it in a single year. Christen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,175 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Christen performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 4,749 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Christen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 953 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Christen in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Christen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 11,511 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.