Kristina
Kristina was given to 118 girls in 2025, #1,724 among girls’ names; 137,118 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 130,000 Americans named Kristina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kristina is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Christina.”
Also “a transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, or Russian female given name Кристина (Kristina)”
A modern Scandinavian spelling variant of Christina
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristina?
#1,724 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristina fell from #741 in 2015 to #1,724 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.07 per 1,000.
5,584 babies in 1985, the peak
Kristina peaked in 1985, when 5,584 babies were given it (5,566 girls, #57 among girls’ names). The 118 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,724 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,741 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,460 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 171 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 170 | #1,300 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 215 | #1,130 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 233 | #1,083 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 272 | #967 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 320 | #880 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 380 | #741 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 362 | #776 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 357 | #763 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 409 | #689 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 440 | #649 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 501 | #585 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 591 | #510 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 636 | #496 | 0.34 |
| 2007 | 725 | #445 | 0.38 |
| 2006 | 799 | #403 | 0.42 |
| 2005 | 903 | #349 | 0.49 |
| 2004 | 973 | #325 | 0.53 |
| 2003 | 1,034 | #299 | 0.57 |
| 2002 | 1,160 | #273 | 0.65 |
| 2001 | 1,283 | #250 | 0.71 |
| 2000 | 1,433 | #218 | 0.79 |
| 1999 | 1,453 | #215 | 0.82 |
| 1998 | 1,612 | #192 | 0.91 |
| 1997 | 1,865 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1996 | 2,180 | #148 | 1.2 |
| 1995 | 2,437 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 2,875 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1993 | 3,091 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 1992 | 3,466 | #93 | 1.9 |
| 1991 | 3,876 | #87 | 2.1 |
| 1990 | 4,389 | #77 | 2.3 |
| 1989 | 4,803 | #65 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 4,578 | #68 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5,018 | #62 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 4,840 | #62 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 5,566 | #57 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 4,328 | #68 | 2.6 |
| 1983 | 4,382 | #63 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 4,149 | #70 | 2.5 |
| 1981 | 4,061 | #72 | 2.4 |
| 1980 | 4,222 | #73 | 2.5 |
| 1979 | 4,130 | #74 | 2.6 |
| 1978 | 4,229 | #64 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 3,539 | #83 | 2.3 |
| 1976 | 2,972 | #97 | 2.0 |
| 1975 | 2,747 | #103 | 1.9 |
| 1974 | 2,890 | #101 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 3,037 | #97 | 2.1 |
| 1972 | 2,924 | #112 | 1.9 |
| 1971 | 3,057 | #117 | 1.8 |
| 1970 | 3,125 | #125 | 1.8 |
| 1969 | 2,465 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 1968 | 2,135 | #152 | 1.3 |
| 1967 | 1,785 | #181 | 1.1 |
| 1966 | 1,529 | #205 | 0.90 |
| 1965 | 1,372 | #230 | 0.78 |
| 1964 | 1,036 | #281 | 0.55 |
| 1963 | 777 | #338 | 0.40 |
| 1962 | 629 | #375 | 0.32 |
| 1961 | 561 | #411 | 0.28 |
| 1960 | 423 | #478 | 0.21 |
| 1959 | 357 | #516 | 0.18 |
| 1958 | 350 | #518 | 0.17 |
| 1957 | 353 | #508 | 0.17 |
| 1956 | 351 | #498 | 0.17 |
| 1955 | 356 | #481 | 0.18 |
| 1954 | 269 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 251 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1952 | 377 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 333 | #455 | 0.18 |
| 1950 | 282 | #482 | 0.16 |
| 1949 | 257 | #506 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 216 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 153 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 133 | #701 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 82 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,285 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,061 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,668 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,665 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,050 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,362 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,616 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristina has been given almost only to girls: 353 boys in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kristina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristina, and how old are they?
130,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 137,118 Americans ever recorded as Kristina. The median Kristina alive today is 42 years old; half are between 35 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 124,534 people named Kristina (124,414 women and girls, 120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 131,438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 137 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,030 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 62,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,980 |
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 Kristina born?
The states with the most babies named Kristina are California, New York and Texas, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18,268 | #1,803 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9,901 | #1,596 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 8,324 | #2,311 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 7,046 | #1,087 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 6,935 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 6,504 | #1,380 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 6,497 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5,358 | #971 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 4,128 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Washington | 4,120 | #1,155 | 1.6× |
Where Kristina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristina is most over-represented in Washington: since 1915 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 Kristina 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 288,965 babies since 1880, Kristina is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 310 babies (38%), the second most given that year.
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 Kristina
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 Kristina and names like it
- Compare Kristina and KristineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKristina peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristina since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Kristina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.