Christien
Christien was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 1,063 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Christien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christien?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,760, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 2007, the peak
Christien peaked in 2007, when 52 boys were given it, #2,449 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #9,760 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,047 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,027 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,004 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 15 | #5,832 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 16 | #5,550 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 17 | #5,289 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,308 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 18 | #5,066 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 24 | #4,125 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | under 5 | 31 | #3,468 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 39 | #3,000 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 45 | #2,720 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 52 | #2,449 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 32 | #3,318 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 42 | #2,621 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 40 | #2,648 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 30 | #3,125 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 29 | #3,114 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,225 | 36 | #2,623 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 29 | #3,001 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 28 | #2,949 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 37 | #2,353 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,397 | 23 | #3,171 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 48 | #1,871 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 28 | #2,627 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,858 | 20 | #3,340 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 27 | #2,639 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 24 | #2,849 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,798 | 16 | #3,660 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,391 | 15 | #3,800 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,770 | 12 | #4,308 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,814 | 9 | #4,840 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,641 | 12 | #3,759 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 9 | #4,525 | |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,097 | 7 | #5,234 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,914 | 6 | #5,691 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,014 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,801 | 8 | #4,662 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,710 | 5 | #6,443 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,635 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,031 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,889 | 7 | #4,671 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,565 | 6 | #5,029 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,603 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,014 | 7 | #4,252 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,584 | 6 | #4,589 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,204 | 11 | #2,917 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,653 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,747 | |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,343 | 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 Christien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,063 Americans recorded as Christien, 13% are girls and 87% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Christien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christien, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,063 Americans ever recorded as Christien. The median Christien alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,043 people named Christien (252 women and girls, 791 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,036 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 97 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 305 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 89 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 484,687 babies since 1880, Christien is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,699 babies recorded by SSA was a Christien (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Christien
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 Christien and names like it
- Compare Christien and ChristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChristien peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christien since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Christien.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Christien alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.