Chrystian
Chrystian was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 851 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chrystian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chrystian?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,679, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 2000, the peak
Chrystian peaked in 2000, when 56 babies were given it (50 boys, #2,018 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #12,679 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,366 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,017 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,044 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,884 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,330 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,284 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,006 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,228 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,051 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 23 | #4,284 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,769 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,149 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,809 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,688 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,852 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,753 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,820 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,162 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,327 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,649 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,049 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,818 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,628 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,018 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,731 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,400 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,613 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,843 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,310 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,111 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,519 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,232 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,832 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,447 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,101 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,550 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,929 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chrystian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 851 Americans recorded as Chrystian, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chrystian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chrystian, and how old are they?
An estimated 835 Americans named Chrystian 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 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 802 people named Chrystian (123 women and girls, 679 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 805 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 Chrystian?
Chrystian is a less common spelling of Christian: SSA has recorded 851 Chrystian and 473,843 Christian since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 481,103 babies since 1880, Chrystian is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,683 babies recorded by SSA was a Chrystian (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 Chrystian
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 Chrystian and names like it
- Compare Chrystian and ChristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChrystian peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chrystian since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Chrystian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chrystian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.