Kristain
Kristain was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 303 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kristain?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,582, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1990, the peak
Kristain peaked in 1990, when 23 babies were given it (17 girls, #5,402 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,191 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #13,604 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,582 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,061 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,319 | 9 | #6,597 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,983 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,209 | 6 | #8,528 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,069 | 12 | #4,974 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,231 | 6 | #8,331 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,846 | 5 | #9,534 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 18 | #5,377 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,181 | 7 | #6,946 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,402 | 6 | #7,682 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,944 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,048 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,442 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,603 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,970 | 5 | #7,109 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,534 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,601 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,826 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,422 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,711 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,410 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,898 | under 5 |
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 Kristain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 303 Americans recorded as Kristain, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kristain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristain, and how old are they?
An estimated 294 Americans named Kristain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 31 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 381 people named Kristain (226 women and girls, 155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 296 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kristain
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.