Christiaan
Christiaan was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,891 among boys’ names; 886 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christiaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christiaan mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Christiaan is “a male given name, equivalent to English Christian”
Ultimately from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós).
/ˈkrɪstiˌ(j)aːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christiaan?
#9,891 among boys’ names, 2025
Christiaan fell from #8,894 in 2015 to #9,891 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
43 babies in 1968, the peak
Christiaan peaked in 1968, when 43 boys were given it, #1,149 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,891 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,086 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,933 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,031 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,879 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,005 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,894 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,823 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,675 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,273 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #9,802 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,682 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,303 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,285 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,836 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,101 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,073 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,104 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,444 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,446 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,506 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,813 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,566 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,043 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,077 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,562 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,443 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,768 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,381 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,014 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,549 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,001 | 6.8 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,376 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,004 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,611 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,236 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,737 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,574 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,133 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,507 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,284 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,685 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,292 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,215 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,007 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,013 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,822 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,052 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,937 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,602 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,263 | 23.1 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,686 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,149 | 24.7 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,032 | 4.6 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,329 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christiaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christiaan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christiaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christiaan, and how old are they?
An estimated 831 Americans named Christiaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 24 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,059 people named Christiaan (36 women and girls, 1,023 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 483,520 babies since 1880, Christiaan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 3,689 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 Christiaan
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 Christiaan and names like it
- Compare Christiaan and ChristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sChristiaan peaked in 1968.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christiaan since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Christiaan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Christiaan.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christiaan alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.