Kriston
Kriston was last recorded in 2025, when 6 babies were given it; 1,266 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Kriston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 30 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kriston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kriston?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,648, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1980, the peak
Kriston peaked in 1980, when 57 babies were given it (39 girls, #2,463 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #11,423 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,473 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #13,232 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,207 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,549 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,288 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,273 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,544 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 13 | #6,509 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 8 | #9,238 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | under 5 | 12 | #6,917 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,506 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,648 | 16 | #5,654 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,386 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 9 | #8,434 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,954 | 13 | #6,063 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,560 | 9 | #7,909 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,522 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,585 | 9 | #7,377 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,557 | 10 | #6,736 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,812 | 9 | #7,149 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 11 | #5,874 | |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,296 | 11 | #5,671 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,338 | 12 | #5,133 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,412 | 10 | #5,786 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,443 | 7 | #7,436 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,858 | 14 | #4,421 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,106 | 12 | #4,879 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,947 | 13 | #4,463 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,287 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,670 | 8 | #6,157 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,125 | 9 | #5,403 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,948 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,920 | 7 | #5,813 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,810 | 14 | #3,355 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,679 | 14 | #3,312 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,019 | 12 | #3,577 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,878 | 11 | #3,761 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,470 | 11 | #3,823 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,512 | 6 | #5,913 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,463 | 18 | #2,676 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,734 | 17 | #2,724 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,552 | 14 | #3,001 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,205 | 15 | #2,850 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,759 | 19 | #2,379 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,849 | 13 | #3,005 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,324 | 16 | #2,513 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,960 | 12 | #2,947 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,647 | 13 | #2,747 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,301 | 13 | #2,747 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,369 | 11 | #2,987 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,581 | 10 | #2,970 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,629 | 8 | #3,252 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,949 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,527 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,156 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,385 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kriston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,266 Americans recorded as Kriston, 57% are girls and 43% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kriston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kriston, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,266 Americans ever recorded as Kriston. The median Kriston alive today is 40 years old; half are between 30 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,016 people named Kriston (551 women and girls, 465 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 369 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 555 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 235 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 45 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 429,752 babies since 1880, Kriston is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 163 babies (3.7%), the fourth 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 Kriston
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 Kriston and names like it
- Compare Kriston and KristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKriston peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kriston since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Kriston.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kriston alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.