Girls' name · since 1956
Krisan
Krisan has 59 recorded births since 1956 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1963 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 59
- total births
- 1956–1989
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 61%
- born in that decade
Krisan is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 59 have been recorded since 1956.
Krisan has 59 recorded births among girls since 1956, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1956 to 1989.
- 59 total births
- 1956–1989 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 61% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Krisan's 59 recorded births place it above 54% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Krisan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Krisan's SSA record in two at 1964 and the more recent half accounts for 51% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 49%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1964, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1963 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Krisan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1956–1989
- Peak year (1963)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 34 years of records
Krisan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Krisan's strongest decade.
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 61% of all-time use.
Krisan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 13
1950s
13 births
- 1960s
1960s
36 births
- 1980s 10
1980s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 36 births (61% of all-time use).
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- Krisan's decade-level peak was the 1960s (36 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1956–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Krisan: Baby Name Since 1956 - 59 Births, Peak 1963." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/krisan. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Krisan 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 July 2026.