Kristyn
Kristyn was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,699 among girls’ names; 8,830 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,520 Americans named Kristyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 31 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kristyn is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristyn?
#6,699 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristyn fell from #4,795 in 2015 to #6,699 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 10.6 per million.
459 babies in 1990, the peak
Kristyn peaked in 1990, when 459 girls were given it, #518 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,699 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,269 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,993 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,758 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,740 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,208 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,859 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,381 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,412 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,086 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,795 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,714 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,207 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,557 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,965 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,547 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,327 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,675 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,697 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,655 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,270 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,012 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,905 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,577 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,391 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,321 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,364 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 167 | #1,137 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 188 | #1,023 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 259 | #797 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 277 | #738 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 282 | #735 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 299 | #713 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 351 | #643 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 377 | #598 | 0.20 |
| 1990 | 459 | #518 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 438 | #529 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 414 | #533 | 0.23 |
| 1987 | 307 | #625 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 318 | #605 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 313 | #607 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 295 | #606 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 247 | #688 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 289 | #623 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 298 | #610 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 223 | #745 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 143 | #998 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,101 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,121 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 95 | #1,199 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 98 | #1,184 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,192 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,261 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 93 | #1,167 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 119 | #1,035 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 90 | #1,245 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 91 | #1,173 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,086 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,604 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 57 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,866 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,252 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,530 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,640 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,311 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,806 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,639 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kristyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristyn, and how old are they?
8,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 8,830 Americans ever recorded as Kristyn. The median Kristyn alive today is 37 years old; half are between 31 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 7,978 people named Kristyn (7,965 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 184 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,510 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
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 Kristyn born?
The states with the most babies named Kristyn are California, Texas and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 814 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 614 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 578 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 543 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 443 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 365 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 339 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 319 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 271 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 258 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Kristyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristyn is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1949 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 Kristyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kristyn?
Kristyn is a less common spelling of Kristin: SSA has recorded 8,830 Kristyn and 180,951 Kristin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 431,267 babies since 1880, Kristyn is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 157 babies (11%), again the third 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 Kristyn
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 Kristyn and names like it
- Compare Kristyn and KristinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKristyn peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kristyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.