Chrysta
Chrysta was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 574 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chrysta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chrysta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,907, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1993, the peak
Chrysta peaked in 1993, when 26 girls were given it, #4,005 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #14,907 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,579 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,899 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,928 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,415 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,037 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,919 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,530 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,647 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,032 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #10,938 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,706 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,635 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,860 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,329 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,323 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,548 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,005 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,396 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,444 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,722 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,172 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,036 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,764 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,057 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,098 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,998 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,892 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,603 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,775 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,023 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,799 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,293 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,984 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,938 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,904 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,244 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,039 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,096 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,472 | 5.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,961 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,912 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,512 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chrysta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chrysta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chrysta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chrysta, and how old are they?
An estimated 554 Americans named Chrysta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 580 people named Chrysta (580 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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 Chrysta?
Chrysta is a less common spelling of Christa: SSA has recorded 574 Chrysta and 32,870 Christa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 156,458 babies since 1880, Chrysta is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 51 babies recorded by SSA was a Chrysta (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 Chrysta
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 Chrysta and names like it
- Compare Chrysta and ChristaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChrysta peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chrysta since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Chrysta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chrysta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.