Kristine
Kristine was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,228 among girls’ names; 84,514 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 75,500 Americans named Kristine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 43 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kristine is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Christine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristine?
#3,228 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristine fell from #2,392 in 2015 to #3,228 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.1 to 30.5 per million.
3,541 babies in 1970, the peak
Kristine peaked in 1970, when 3,541 babies were given it (3,532 girls, #109 among girls’ names). The 49 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,228 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,861 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,353 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,797 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,022 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,523 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,805 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,521 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,525 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,336 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,392 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,148 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,961 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,925 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,833 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,665 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,604 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,485 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 177 | #1,367 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,338 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 187 | #1,220 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 212 | #1,084 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 197 | #1,117 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 223 | #988 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 261 | #881 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 312 | #741 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 284 | #775 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 365 | #636 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 373 | #609 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 480 | #500 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 517 | #478 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 657 | #386 | 0.37 |
| 1993 | 797 | #329 | 0.44 |
| 1992 | 875 | #316 | 0.47 |
| 1991 | 997 | #279 | 0.53 |
| 1990 | 1,196 | #237 | 0.63 |
| 1989 | 1,379 | #194 | 0.75 |
| 1988 | 1,376 | #196 | 0.77 |
| 1987 | 1,369 | #199 | 0.79 |
| 1986 | 1,369 | #191 | 0.80 |
| 1985 | 1,441 | #188 | 0.84 |
| 1984 | 1,359 | #196 | 0.81 |
| 1983 | 1,259 | #204 | 0.75 |
| 1982 | 1,233 | #214 | 0.73 |
| 1981 | 1,362 | #196 | 0.82 |
| 1980 | 1,424 | #189 | 0.86 |
| 1979 | 1,455 | #183 | 0.91 |
| 1978 | 1,732 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 1,564 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 1,357 | #187 | 0.93 |
| 1975 | 1,559 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 1974 | 1,863 | #147 | 1.3 |
| 1973 | 2,148 | #133 | 1.5 |
| 1972 | 2,370 | #127 | 1.6 |
| 1971 | 2,963 | #120 | 1.8 |
| 1970 | 3,532 | #109 | 2.0 |
| 1969 | 3,322 | #110 | 2.0 |
| 1968 | 3,411 | #105 | 2.1 |
| 1967 | 3,292 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 1966 | 3,314 | #104 | 2.0 |
| 1965 | 3,162 | #120 | 1.8 |
| 1964 | 2,290 | #171 | 1.2 |
| 1963 | 1,747 | #203 | 0.91 |
| 1962 | 1,329 | #239 | 0.68 |
| 1961 | 1,174 | #261 | 0.58 |
| 1960 | 1,084 | #273 | 0.54 |
| 1959 | 1,020 | #278 | 0.50 |
| 1958 | 1,082 | #267 | 0.54 |
| 1957 | 986 | #282 | 0.48 |
| 1956 | 995 | #273 | 0.50 |
| 1955 | 992 | #274 | 0.51 |
| 1954 | 866 | #289 | 0.45 |
| 1953 | 1,247 | #228 | 0.66 |
| 1952 | 1,885 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1951 | 1,755 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1950 | 1,247 | #214 | 0.73 |
| 1949 | 1,174 | #219 | 0.69 |
| 1948 | 1,033 | #231 | 0.61 |
| 1947 | 718 | #291 | 0.41 |
| 1946 | 446 | #360 | 0.28 |
| 1945 | 213 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1944 | 158 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 123 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 88 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 61 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,313 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,680 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,082 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,071 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,516 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,219 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,272 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,471 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,528 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,389 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,520 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,150 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristine has been given almost only to girls: 185 boys in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kristine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristine, and how old are they?
75,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 84,514 Americans ever recorded as Kristine. The median Kristine alive today is 55 years old; half are between 43 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 76,927 people named Kristine (76,872 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 77,866 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 395 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 35,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 818 |
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 Kristine born?
The states with the most babies named Kristine are California, New York and Illinois, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10,945 | #2,944 | 1.3× |
| New York | 6,887 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 5,880 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Wisconsin | 5,551 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Michigan | 5,359 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 4,246 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Ohio | 4,026 | #1,365 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,764 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 2,824 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Washington | 2,748 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Kristine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristine is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1916 it was given 2.9 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 Kristine 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 288,319 babies since 1880, Kristine is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 310 babies (16%), the third 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 Kristine
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 Kristine and names like it
- Compare Kristine and KristinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKristine peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristine since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Kristine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kristine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.