Kristian — #1124 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kristian

The Social Security Administration has registered 20,627 babies named Kristian between 1942 and 2024, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kristian currently holds the #1124 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 614 babies received it in a single year. Kristian is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,812 additional births since 1959.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kristian performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,596 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kristian shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,660 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kristian in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kristian 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 20,627 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.