Crista — girls' name

What the Data Says About Crista

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,241 babies named Crista between 1947 and 2019, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Crista currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 175 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Crista performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Crista shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 476 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Crista in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Crista in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,241 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.