Cristian
Cristian was given to 906 boys in 2025, #362 among boys’ names; 71,051 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 69,600 Americans named Cristian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cristian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cristian is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Christian.”
/ˈkɹɪʃt͡ʃən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cristian?
#362 among boys’ names, 2025
Cristian fell from #271 in 2015 to #362 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.70 to 0.53 per 1,000.
3,046 babies in 2006, the peak
Cristian peaked in 2006, when 3,046 babies were given it (3,024 boys, #134 among boys’ names). The 906 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 906 | #362 | 0.53 |
| 2024 | 1,079 | #320 | 0.63 |
| 2023 | 1,030 | #325 | 0.60 |
| 2022 | 1,047 | #322 | 0.60 |
| 2021 | 993 | #330 | 0.57 |
| 2020 | 988 | #332 | 0.57 |
| 2019 | 1,110 | #306 | 0.62 |
| 2018 | 1,142 | #301 | 0.63 |
| 2017 | 1,184 | #297 | 0.64 |
| 2016 | 1,214 | #297 | 0.64 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,350 | #271 | 0.70 |
| 2014 | 1,346 | #273 | 0.70 |
| 2013 | 1,537 | #234 | 0.81 |
| 2012 | 1,675 | #217 | 0.88 |
| 2011 | 2,007 | #189 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 2,069 | #182 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 2,399 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 2,702 | #150 | 1.3 |
| 2007 | 2,918 | #139 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 3,024 | #134 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 2,746 | #142 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2,856 | #139 | 1.4 |
| 2003 | 2,805 | #145 | 1.4 |
| 2002 | 2,685 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 2001 | 2,630 | #150 | 1.4 |
| 2000 | 2,423 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 2,341 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 2,566 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1997 | 2,331 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 2,847 | #130 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 2,848 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 1994 | 2,542 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 1993 | 1,786 | #180 | 0.91 |
| 1992 | 1,048 | #272 | 0.52 |
| 1991 | 670 | #357 | 0.33 |
| 1990 | 550 | #416 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 391 | #484 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 245 | #598 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 194 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 234 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 183 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 167 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 145 | #715 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 164 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 119 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 108 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 66 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 75 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,149 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,117 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,110 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,932 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 29 | #1,501 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,974 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,184 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,737 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 71,051 Americans recorded as Cristian, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 906 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cristian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristian, and how old are they?
69,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 71,051 Americans ever recorded as Cristian. The median Cristian alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 68,806 people named Cristian (1,509 women and girls, 67,297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 64,292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 651 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 39,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,800 |
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 Cristian born?
The states with the most babies named Cristian are California, Texas and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 189 | #194 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 163 | #241 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 49 | #394 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 44 | #254 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 37 | #329 | 0.8× |
| New York | 30 | #532 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 29 | #273 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 26 | #290 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 23 | #247 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 23 | #325 | 0.4× |
Where Cristian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristian is most over-represented in California: since 1960 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Cristian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 104,827 babies since 1880, Cristian is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 906 of their 1,168 babies (78%), again the most given.
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 Cristian
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 Cristian and names like it
- Compare Cristian and KristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCristian peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristian since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Cristian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cristian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.