Kristin
Kristin was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,705 among girls’ names; 180,951 Americans have been recorded with it since 1932 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 171,000 Americans named Kristin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kristin is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, a variation of Christine, of mostly American use.”
Borrowed in the 20th century from Norwegian Kristin, a variant of Christina.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristin?
#4,705 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristin fell from #1,845 in 2015 to #4,705 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 62.7 to 18.0 per million.
9,801 babies in 1981, the peak
Kristin peaked in 1981, when 9,801 babies were given it (9,737 girls, #31 among girls’ names). The 29 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,705 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,523 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,610 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,006 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,521 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,121 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,481 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,665 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,681 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,435 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,845 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,598 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,568 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 155 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,386 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 228 | #1,093 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 261 | #1,013 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 317 | #880 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 355 | #811 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 510 | #575 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 539 | #535 | 0.29 |
| 2004 | 553 | #521 | 0.30 |
| 2003 | 716 | #418 | 0.39 |
| 2002 | 829 | #362 | 0.46 |
| 2001 | 963 | #320 | 0.53 |
| 2000 | 1,056 | #301 | 0.58 |
| 1999 | 1,194 | #266 | 0.67 |
| 1998 | 1,447 | #211 | 0.82 |
| 1997 | 1,752 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 2,193 | #147 | 1.3 |
| 1995 | 2,418 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 2,840 | #114 | 1.6 |
| 1993 | 2,991 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 1992 | 3,597 | #90 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 4,087 | #86 | 2.2 |
| 1990 | 5,300 | #65 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 6,064 | #60 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6,019 | #58 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5,463 | #55 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 6,000 | #50 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6,566 | #49 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7,007 | #47 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7,267 | #42 | 4.3 |
| 1982 | 8,734 | #37 | 5.2 |
| 1981 | 9,737 | #31 | 5.8 |
| 1980 | 7,701 | #37 | 4.6 |
| 1979 | 4,264 | #73 | 2.7 |
| 1978 | 3,807 | #78 | 2.5 |
| 1977 | 3,605 | #82 | 2.4 |
| 1976 | 3,627 | #74 | 2.5 |
| 1975 | 3,880 | #74 | 2.7 |
| 1974 | 4,218 | #72 | 2.9 |
| 1973 | 3,903 | #78 | 2.7 |
| 1972 | 4,586 | #67 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 4,861 | #71 | 2.9 |
| 1970 | 5,633 | #63 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 4,753 | #76 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 4,134 | #84 | 2.5 |
| 1967 | 3,600 | #97 | 2.2 |
| 1966 | 3,262 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 1965 | 2,829 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 1964 | 1,724 | #206 | 0.91 |
| 1963 | 1,580 | #216 | 0.82 |
| 1962 | 876 | #317 | 0.45 |
| 1961 | 822 | #328 | 0.41 |
| 1960 | 774 | #340 | 0.38 |
| 1959 | 710 | #356 | 0.35 |
| 1958 | 602 | #372 | 0.30 |
| 1957 | 537 | #395 | 0.26 |
| 1956 | 453 | #428 | 0.23 |
| 1955 | 464 | #407 | 0.24 |
| 1954 | 407 | #431 | 0.21 |
| 1953 | 446 | #402 | 0.24 |
| 1952 | 440 | #393 | 0.24 |
| 1951 | 422 | #399 | 0.23 |
| 1950 | 356 | #424 | 0.21 |
| 1949 | 322 | #443 | 0.19 |
| 1948 | 317 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1947 | 275 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 239 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1945 | 125 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 108 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 100 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 87 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 61 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,005 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 56 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,647 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,835 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,004 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,751 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristin has been given almost only to girls: 1,638 boys in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kristin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristin, and how old are they?
171,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 180,951 Americans ever recorded as Kristin. The median Kristin alive today is 44 years old; half are between 38 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 163,325 people named Kristin (162,449 women and girls, 876 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 173,304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 327 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,630 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 64,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 84,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 872 |
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 Kristin born?
The states with the most babies named Kristin are California, New York and Illinois, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17,330 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 13,110 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 10,137 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 9,969 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 9,557 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 8,728 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 8,262 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 6,579 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Massachusetts | 6,444 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 6,150 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Kristin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristin is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1932 it was given 1.6 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 Kristin 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 437,264 babies since 1880, Kristin is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 157 babies (18%), again the second 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 Kristin
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 Kristin and names like it
- Compare Kristin and KristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKristin peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristin since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Kristin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.