Kristan
Kristan was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 6,195 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,850 Americans named Kristan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kristan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,884, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
256 babies in 1985, the peak
Kristan peaked in 1985, when 256 babies were given it (242 girls, #713 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #13,082 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #11,383 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,884 | 6 | #11,548 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 8 | #9,275 | |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,379 | 6 | #11,562 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,364 | 11 | #7,404 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,442 | 9 | #8,420 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #7,885 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,962 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,794 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,714 | 6 | #11,651 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,539 | 6 | #11,576 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,722 | 8 | #9,504 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,587 | 11 | #7,487 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,002 | 9 | #8,615 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,337 | 8 | #9,208 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,524 | 12 | #6,449 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,861 | 8 | #8,592 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,026 | 10 | #7,018 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,331 | 7 | #8,986 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,594 | 5 | #11,583 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,469 | 9 | #7,146 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,075 | 7 | #8,345 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,323 | 9 | #6,598 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,084 | 12 | #5,132 |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,371 | 7 | #7,602 |
| 1995 | 127 | #1,311 | 15 | #4,172 |
| 1994 | 136 | #1,259 | 10 | #5,703 |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,330 | 9 | #6,013 |
| 1992 | 136 | #1,259 | 12 | #4,721 |
| 1991 | 165 | #1,090 | 9 | #5,755 |
| 1990 | 196 | #957 | 10 | #5,207 |
| 1989 | 210 | #876 | 14 | #3,920 |
| 1988 | 192 | #904 | 12 | #4,060 |
| 1987 | 192 | #884 | 12 | #3,868 |
| 1986 | 223 | #770 | 10 | #4,311 |
| 1985 | 242 | #713 | 14 | #3,311 |
| 1984 | 206 | #781 | 18 | #2,657 |
| 1983 | 183 | #839 | 12 | #3,538 |
| 1982 | 223 | #748 | 13 | #3,407 |
| 1981 | 202 | #800 | 11 | #3,743 |
| 1980 | 205 | #797 | 15 | #3,035 |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,091 | 26 | #2,022 |
| 1978 | 92 | #1,309 | 18 | #2,526 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,389 | 16 | #2,735 |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,437 | 15 | #2,765 |
| 1975 | 99 | #1,168 | 24 | #1,977 |
| 1974 | 113 | #1,052 | 12 | #3,046 |
| 1973 | 109 | #1,060 | 15 | #2,562 |
| 1972 | 108 | #1,067 | 13 | #2,746 |
| 1971 | 124 | #1,004 | 17 | #2,330 |
| 1970 | 136 | #939 | 11 | #2,986 |
| 1969 | 110 | #1,047 | 15 | #2,261 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,045 | 7 | #3,527 |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,050 | 9 | #2,883 |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,373 | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,375 | 7 | #3,414 |
| 1964 | 62 | #1,437 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,743 | 5 | #4,362 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,188 | 10 | #2,766 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,017 | 8 | #3,243 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,866 | 6 | #3,868 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,999 | 7 | #3,442 |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,596 | 5 | #4,247 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,583 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,038 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,038 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,909 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,195 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,098 | 5 | #4,021 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,434 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,143 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,502 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,058 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,830 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,127 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,108 | 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 Kristan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,195 Americans recorded as Kristan, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kristan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristan, and how old are they?
5,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,195 Americans ever recorded as Kristan. The median Kristan alive today is 42 years old; half are between 35 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 5,620 people named Kristan (5,035 women and girls, 585 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 389 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,980 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 587 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 98 |
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 Kristan born?
The states with the most babies named Kristan are Texas, California and Ohio, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 519 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 365 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 234 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 216 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 177 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 159 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 130 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 126 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 112 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 109 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Kristan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristan is most over-represented in Texas: since 1945 it was given 1.1 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 Kristan 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 431,267 babies since 1880, Kristan is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 157 babies (3.2%), again the fourth most given.
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 Kristan
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 Kristan and names like it
- Compare Kristan and KristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKristan peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristan since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Kristan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.