Criston
Criston was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 121 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Criston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Criston?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,675, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1991, the peak
Criston peaked in 1991, when 10 babies were given it (5 boys, #8,431 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,675 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #9,753 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #7,655 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 8 | #8,951 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #12,636 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #9,824 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,268 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #12,722 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,347 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #11,689 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #8,830 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 9 | #6,933 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,617 | 5 | #8,431 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,139 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,497 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,407 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,340 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,770 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Criston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 121 Americans recorded as Criston, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Criston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Criston, and how old are they?
An estimated 118 Americans named Criston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 250 people named Criston (65 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 71,353 babies since 1880, Criston is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 906 babies recorded by SSA was a Criston (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.
More about Criston and names like it
- Compare Criston and CristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCriston peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Criston.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Criston alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.