Kriston — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kriston

The Social Security Administration has registered 720 babies named Kriston between 1965 and 2008, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kriston currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Kriston is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 540 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kriston performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 336 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kriston shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Kriston in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kriston 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 720 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.