Krista
Krista was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,678 among girls’ names; 73,863 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 70,200 Americans named Krista and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krista by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Krista mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Krista is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
A spelling variant of Christa, a modern short form of Christina, partly borrowed from German Christa.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Krista?
#3,678 among girls’ names, 2025
Krista fell from #1,681 in 2015 to #3,678 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 71.1 to 25.5 per million.
3,065 babies in 1986, the peak
Krista peaked in 1986, when 3,065 babies were given it (3,054 girls, #93 among girls’ names). The 41 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,678 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,616 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,301 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,101 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,275 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,700 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,670 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,398 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,152 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,047 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 127 | #1,681 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 119 | #1,752 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,536 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,311 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 186 | #1,278 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 222 | #1,111 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 255 | #1,024 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 312 | #890 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 355 | #810 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 408 | #696 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 482 | #590 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 528 | #542 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 680 | #441 | 0.37 |
| 2002 | 595 | #474 | 0.33 |
| 2001 | 621 | #449 | 0.34 |
| 2000 | 695 | #408 | 0.38 |
| 1999 | 806 | #366 | 0.45 |
| 1998 | 944 | #318 | 0.53 |
| 1997 | 1,078 | #269 | 0.62 |
| 1996 | 1,312 | #221 | 0.75 |
| 1995 | 1,467 | #202 | 0.83 |
| 1994 | 1,627 | #182 | 0.91 |
| 1993 | 1,896 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 2,028 | #150 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 1,911 | #155 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 2,144 | #145 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 2,224 | #137 | 1.2 |
| 1988 | 2,566 | #112 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 2,550 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 3,054 | #93 | 1.8 |
| 1985 | 2,183 | #134 | 1.3 |
| 1984 | 2,170 | #133 | 1.3 |
| 1983 | 2,043 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 1,695 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 1,848 | #153 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 2,531 | #121 | 1.5 |
| 1979 | 2,212 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1978 | 1,733 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 1,762 | #155 | 1.1 |
| 1976 | 1,593 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1975 | 1,695 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 1974 | 1,808 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 1973 | 1,954 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 1972 | 2,049 | #142 | 1.3 |
| 1971 | 2,412 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 1970 | 2,589 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 1969 | 1,321 | #227 | 0.78 |
| 1968 | 1,049 | #257 | 0.64 |
| 1967 | 863 | #291 | 0.52 |
| 1966 | 846 | #300 | 0.50 |
| 1965 | 752 | #328 | 0.43 |
| 1964 | 613 | #390 | 0.32 |
| 1963 | 527 | #421 | 0.27 |
| 1962 | 447 | #459 | 0.23 |
| 1961 | 344 | #528 | 0.17 |
| 1960 | 314 | #551 | 0.16 |
| 1959 | 302 | #562 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 239 | #637 | 0.12 |
| 1957 | 238 | #632 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 241 | #614 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 241 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 216 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 172 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 154 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 129 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 111 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,516 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krista a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krista has been given almost only to girls: 148 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Krista: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krista, and how old are they?
70,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 73,863 Americans ever recorded as Krista. The median Krista alive today is 42 years old; half are between 35 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 66,762 people named Krista (66,705 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70,944 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,660 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 994 |
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 Krista born?
The states with the most babies named Krista are Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #970 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,587 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,125 | 1.4× |
Where Krista is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krista is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1937 it was given 1.6 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 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 Krista 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 281,888 babies since 1880, Krista is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 108 babies (38%), the most given that year.
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 Krista
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 Krista and names like it
- Compare Krista and KristiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKrista peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krista since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Krista: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Krista.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krista alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.