Christyan
Christyan was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 303 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christyan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,701, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2005, the peak
Christyan peaked in 2005, when 21 boys were given it, #4,213 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #12,701 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,919 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,392 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,979 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,554 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,783 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,650 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,000 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,186 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,684 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 14 | #6,151 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,455 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,473 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,568 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,213 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,539 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,850 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,732 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,705 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,609 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,712 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,528 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,305 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,259 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,084 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,786 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,775 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,419 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 303 Americans recorded as Christyan, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Christyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 298 Americans named Christyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 288 people named Christyan (36 women and girls, 252 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Christyan?
Christyan is a less common spelling of Christian: SSA has recorded 303 Christyan and 473,843 Christian since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 484,139 babies since 1880, Christyan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,699 babies recorded by SSA was a Christyan (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 Christyan
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 Christyan and names like it
- Compare Christyan and ChristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChristyan peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Christyan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Christyan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.