Cristen
Cristen was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,781 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,660 Americans named Cristen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 34 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cristen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,798, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
153 babies in 1982, the peak
Cristen peaked in 1982, when 153 girls were given it, #966 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,798 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,533 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,030 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,921 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,490 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,397 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,738 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,783 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,523 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,983 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 15 | #8,189 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,419 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,439 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,364 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,693 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,120 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,470 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,821 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,386 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,575 | 30.0 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,429 | 31.0 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,721 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,052 | 37.5 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,431 | 29.1 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,290 | 31.0 |
| 1992 | 58 | #2,274 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,830 | 41.1 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,735 | 44.2 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,549 | 49.4 |
| 1988 | 82 | #1,588 | 46.0 |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,534 | 47.7 |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,395 | 53.6 |
| 1985 | 105 | #1,278 | 61.0 |
| 1984 | 97 | #1,285 | 57.6 |
| 1983 | 115 | #1,152 | 68.8 |
| 1982 | 153 | #966 | 90.4 |
| 1981 | 124 | #1,118 | 74.3 |
| 1980 | 125 | #1,105 | 75.3 |
| 1979 | 66 | #1,682 | 41.1 |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,753 | 38.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,347 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,799 | 35.5 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,857 | 33.6 |
| 1974 | 86 | #1,262 | 58.6 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,735 | 35.0 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,633 | 36.2 |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,038 | 24.6 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,604 | 33.8 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,757 | 28.5 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,836 | 25.6 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,174 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,682 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,754 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,582 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,483 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,944 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,306 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,530 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,682 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,269 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,781 Americans recorded as Cristen, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cristen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristen, and how old are they?
2,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,781 Americans ever recorded as Cristen. The median Cristen alive today is 42 years old; half are between 34 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 2,752 people named Cristen (2,527 women and girls, 225 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,691 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 47 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 836 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 358 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32 |
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 Cristen born?
The states with the most babies named Cristen are California, Texas and New York, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 226 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 222 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 90 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 54 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Cristen 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 Cristen?
Cristen is a less common spelling of Kristen: SSA has recorded 2,781 Cristen and 220,952 Kristen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 429,457 babies since 1880, Cristen is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 157 babies recorded by SSA was a Cristen (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 Cristen
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 Cristen and names like it
- Compare Cristen and KristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCristen peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristen since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Cristen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cristen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.