Christia — unisex name
737 babies named Christia in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Christia was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Christia in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Christia
The Social Security Administration has registered 737 babies named Christia between 1949 and 2023, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Christia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Christia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 82 additional births since 1989.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Christia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Christia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Christia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Christia 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 737 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.
Christia at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Christia popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1949
- Peak year (1989)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 75 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
737 total births across 75 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 25 births in a single year.
Christia popularity over time — boys
82 total births recorded since 1989 (Christia as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Christia accounts for 10% of total recorded use across both genders.
Christia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 168 births that decade — 23% of Christia's all-time total
Christia decade highlights
- Peak decade 168 births
- Runner-up 163 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Christia's strongest decade
168 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Christia by state
Where Christia concentrates geographically — total births since 1949
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 1.4% |
10 of 737 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1949–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.