Girls' name · since 1987
Keristen
20 babies named Keristen in U.S. Social Security records since 1987, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #46,047 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 20
- born since 1987
- 1990s
- peak decade
Keristen sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 20 recorded since 1987.
Keristen has 20 recorded births among girls since 1987, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1987 to 1997.
- #46,047 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 20 born since 1987
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Keristen ranks #46,047 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 20 born since 1987, peaking in the 1990s.
- #46,047 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 20
- born since 1987
- 1990s
- peak decade
Keristen's 20 recorded births place it above 35.98% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Keristen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Keristen's full recorded timeline at 1996, 75% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 25% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1987, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1996 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Keristen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1987–1997
- Peak year (1996)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Keristen by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (15 births, 75% of the file).
1990s was Keristen's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 75% of all-time use.
Keristen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window.
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s
1990s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 15 births (75% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Keristen: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~10 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1987–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Keristen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.