Christyn
Christyn was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,412 among girls’ names; 1,114 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Christyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Christyn is “a female given name from Latin, variant of Christine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christyn?
#15,412 among girls’ names, 2025
Christyn fell from #7,350 in 2015 to #15,412 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.1 per million.
50 babies in 1982, the peak
Christyn peaked in 1982, when 50 girls were given it, #2,060 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,412 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,838 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,801 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,420 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,336 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,692 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,228 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,168 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,382 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,676 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,350 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,658 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,428 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,207 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,619 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,461 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,403 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,318 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,667 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,340 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,850 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,021 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,626 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,114 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,618 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,529 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,726 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,156 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,403 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,735 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,702 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,264 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,122 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,511 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,225 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,166 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,992 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,295 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,637 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,905 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,536 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,738 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,165 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,060 | 29.5 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,668 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,078 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,482 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,628 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,260 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,560 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,903 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,057 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,790 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,838 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,545 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,464 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,528 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christyn has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Christyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christyn, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,114 Americans ever recorded as Christyn. The median Christyn alive today is 32 years old; half are between 20 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,018 people named Christyn (988 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,049 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 136 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 471 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 325 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 155 |
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 30,001 babies since 1880, Christyn is the fourth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 25 babies (20%), the second 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 Christyn
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 Christyn and names like it
- Compare Christyn and ChristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChristyn peaked in 1982.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Christyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Christyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.