Kristian
Kristian was given to 184 boys in 2025, #1,149 among boys’ names; 27,634 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,700 Americans named Kristian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristian mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Kristian is “a male given name”
From Latin Christianus, which was first recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1291.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristian?
#1,149 among boys’ names, 2025
Kristian fell from #677 in 2015 to #1,149 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.20 to 0.11 per 1,000.
886 babies in 1996, the peak
Kristian peaked in 1996, when 886 babies were given it (607 boys, #385 among boys’ names). The 192 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,460 | 184 | #1,149 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,536 | 190 | #1,125 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,806 | 214 | #1,022 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,477 | 238 | #955 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,117 | 252 | #912 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,495 | 279 | #825 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,087 | 289 | #795 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,243 | 326 | #732 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,957 | 346 | #709 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,497 | 359 | #690 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,221 | 375 | #677 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,062 | 400 | #655 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,105 | 400 | #621 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,031 | 442 | #581 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,479 | 462 | #551 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,857 | 468 | #542 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,279 | 531 | #508 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,737 | 546 | #502 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,498 | 565 | #475 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,365 | 578 | #466 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,325 | 580 | #446 |
| 2004 | 87 | #2,093 | 512 | #484 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,996 | 573 | #438 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,629 | 533 | #458 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,597 | 587 | #421 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,246 | 591 | #419 |
| 1999 | 169 | #1,155 | 566 | #415 |
| 1998 | 200 | #1,001 | 610 | #401 |
| 1997 | 214 | #928 | 614 | #389 |
| 1996 | 279 | #757 | 607 | #385 |
| 1995 | 254 | #784 | 583 | #397 |
| 1994 | 294 | #708 | 509 | #442 |
| 1993 | 239 | #827 | 520 | #428 |
| 1992 | 309 | #699 | 493 | #448 |
| 1991 | 341 | #647 | 377 | #511 |
| 1990 | 357 | #625 | 315 | #569 |
| 1989 | 310 | #660 | 218 | #673 |
| 1988 | 217 | #833 | 193 | #677 |
| 1987 | 254 | #715 | 171 | #697 |
| 1986 | 265 | #688 | 186 | #656 |
| 1985 | 276 | #659 | 182 | #649 |
| 1984 | 202 | #795 | 162 | #680 |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,215 | 134 | #747 |
| 1982 | 133 | #1,076 | 175 | #659 |
| 1981 | 140 | #1,028 | 148 | #711 |
| 1980 | 103 | #1,262 | 148 | #716 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,844 | 230 | #566 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,874 | 242 | #532 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,144 | 297 | #468 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,230 | 257 | #499 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,823 | 274 | #486 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,605 | 229 | #525 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,658 | 233 | #512 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,644 | 212 | #547 |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,762 | 221 | #539 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,940 | 168 | #625 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,857 | 142 | #663 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,039 | 76 | #836 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,897 | 63 | #914 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,280 | 46 | #1,096 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,476 | 41 | #1,197 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,220 | 39 | #1,251 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,139 | 48 | #1,108 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,061 | 30 | #1,445 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 33 | #1,394 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 37 | #1,308 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,744 | 44 | #1,177 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 16 | #2,067 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 15 | #2,148 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 11 | #2,568 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,708 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 17 | #1,928 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 14 | #2,150 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 10 | #2,572 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 8 | #2,906 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,525 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,173 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,562 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,839 |
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 Kristian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 27,634 Americans recorded as Kristian, 25% are girls and 75% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Kristian every year since 1991. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 184 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kristian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristian, and how old are they?
26,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 27,634 Americans ever recorded as Kristian. The median Kristian alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 22,646 people named Kristian (5,677 women and girls, 16,969 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 25,550 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 277 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,620 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,170 |
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 Kristian born?
The states with the most babies named Kristian are Texas, Florida and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 28 | #906 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 20 | #767 | 1.2× |
| California | 16 | #1,220 | 0.9× |
| New York | 13 | #971 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 12 | #737 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 10 | #746 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,052 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 7 | #935 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,302 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #984 | 0.9× |
Where Kristian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristian is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1942 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Kristian 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 578,679 babies since 1880, Kristian is the third most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 192 of their 4,836 babies (4.0%), again the third 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 Kristian
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 Kristian and names like it
- Compare Kristian and ChristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKristian peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristian since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Kristian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Kristian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kristian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.