Crista
Crista was last recorded in 2019, when 9 babies were given it; 4,246 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,030 Americans named Crista and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 34 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Crista by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Crista?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,666, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
175 babies in 1971, the peak
Crista peaked in 1971, when 175 girls were given it, #802 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9 | #10,666 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,421 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,071 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,785 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,109 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,219 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,161 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,092 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,978 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,834 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 29 | #5,039 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,149 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,374 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,886 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,759 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,712 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,023 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,204 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,458 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,442 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,891 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,087 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,100 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,973 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,592 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,688 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 92 | #1,627 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,685 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 110 | #1,373 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 123 | #1,216 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 100 | #1,365 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 171 | #931 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 126 | #1,140 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 108 | #1,206 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 92 | #1,312 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 100 | #1,280 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 107 | #1,221 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 122 | #1,118 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,087 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 99 | #1,248 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 91 | #1,287 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 117 | #1,049 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,070 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 116 | #1,034 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 128 | #944 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 145 | #879 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 175 | #802 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 135 | #942 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,330 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,248 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,739 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,076 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,053 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,069 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,046 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,232 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,763 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,260 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,389 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,435 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Crista a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Crista has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Crista: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Crista, and how old are they?
4,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,246 Americans ever recorded as Crista. The median Crista alive today is 43 years old; half are between 34 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 4,000 people named Crista (3,982 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,087 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 265 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,520 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 622 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 62 |
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).
Where are babies named Crista born?
The states with the most babies named Crista are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 476 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 344 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 157 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 143 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 134 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 122 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 78 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 70 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 48 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Crista with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Crista?
Crista is a less common spelling of Krista: SSA has recorded 4,246 Crista and 73,863 Krista since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 245,581 babies since 1880, Crista is the sixth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Crista (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 Crista
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 Crista and names like it
- Compare Crista and KristaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCrista peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Crista since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Crista.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Crista alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.