Kristan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kristan

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,545 babies named Kristan between 1945 and 2019, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kristan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 242 babies received it in a single year. Kristan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 645 additional births since 1952.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kristan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 2,078 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kristan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 519 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kristan in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kristan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,545 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.