Kristyne
Kristyne was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 396 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kristyne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,316, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1990, the peak
Kristyne peaked in 1990, when 27 girls were given it, #3,848 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #16,316 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,893 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,320 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,060 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,137 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,858 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,100 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,848 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,829 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,951 | 12.9 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 15 | #5,179 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,426 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,706 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,084 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,602 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,720 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,607 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,431 | 6.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,207 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,798 | 6.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,550 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,359 | 6.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,304 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,141 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,294 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,382 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,400 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,178 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,652 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,498 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,077 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,064 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,841 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,349 | 4.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,430 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,519 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,365 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,704 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,201 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,454 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,711 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kristyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristyne, and how old are they?
An estimated 365 Americans named Kristyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 401 people named Kristyne (400 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kristyne?
Kristyne is a less common spelling of Kristine: SSA has recorded 396 Kristyne and 84,514 Kristine since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 230,461 babies since 1880, Kristyne is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 167 babies recorded by SSA was a Kristyne (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kristyne
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 Kristyne and names like it
- Compare Kristyne and KristineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKristyne peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristyne since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kristyne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristyne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.