Kristeen — girls' name
1,321 babies named Kristeen in U.S. Social Security records since 1944, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Kristeen was born in this single decade.
53 babies were named Kristeen in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kristeen
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,321 babies named Kristeen between 1944 and 2005, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kristeen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 53 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kristeen performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 351 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kristeen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 117 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kristeen in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kristeen 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 1,321 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.
Kristeen at a glance
Last recorded 2005Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kristeen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–1944
- Peak year (1971)
- 53
- Annual births at peak — across 62 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2005.
1,321 total births across 62 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 53 births in a single year.
Kristeen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 351 births that decade — 27% of Kristeen's all-time total
Kristeen decade highlights
- Peak decade 351 births
- Runner-up 263 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Kristeen's strongest decade
351 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Kristeen by state
Where Kristeen concentrates geographically — total births since 1944
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 117 | 8.9% |
| #2 | Utah | | 10 | 0.8% |
| #3 | New York | | 6 | 0.5% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.5% |
| #5 | Wisconsin | | 6 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.4% |
117 of 1,321 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 8.9% of nationwide
- Utah 0.8% of nationwide
- New York 0.5% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.5% of nationwide
- Wisconsin 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1944–2005 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.