Unisex name · since 1973
Kristain
237 babies named Kristain in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 237
- total births
- 1973–2002
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
Kristain sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 237 recorded since 1973.
Kristain has 237 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 2002.
- 237 total births
- 1973–2002 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kristain's 237 recorded births place it above 75% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kristain's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kristain's SSA record in two at 1989 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1977, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1989 peak of 18, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kristain popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–2002
- Peak year (1989)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 30 years of records
Kristain popularity over time - boys
66 total births recorded since 1985 (Kristain as boys' name)
Kristain by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kristain's strongest decade.
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Kristain births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 11
1970s
11 births
- 1980s
1980s
118 births
- 1990s
1990s
102 births
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 118 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Kristain's decade-level peak was the 1980s (118 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2000s -- 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, 1973–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kristain: Baby Name Since 1973 - 237 Births, Peak 1989." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kristain. 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 Kristain 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.