Kristen — #1278 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kristen

The Social Security Administration has registered 218,672 babies named Kristen between 1938 and 2024, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kristen currently holds the #1278 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 9,533 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kristen performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 83,226 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Kristen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19,970 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kristen in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kristen 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 218,672 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.