Krysta
Krysta was last recorded in 2023, when 9 babies were given it; 6,566 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,400 Americans named Krysta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krysta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Krysta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,780, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
419 babies in 1993, the peak
Krysta peaked in 1993, when 419 girls were given it, #569 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | #10,780 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,971 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,956 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,383 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,381 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,790 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,865 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,409 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,962 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,552 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 42 | #3,691 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,741 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,815 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,738 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,448 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,218 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,843 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 121 | #1,610 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,502 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,413 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,371 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 137 | #1,363 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 160 | #1,199 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 186 | #1,055 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 195 | #996 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 210 | #928 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 266 | #761 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 277 | #748 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 419 | #569 | 0.23 |
| 1992 | 325 | #675 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 264 | #780 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 296 | #706 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 278 | #714 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 343 | #589 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 307 | #626 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 292 | #633 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 245 | #708 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 184 | #840 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 161 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 151 | #983 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 108 | #1,215 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,427 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,436 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,740 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,963 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,758 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,296 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,526 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,788 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,004 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,512 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,331 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,342 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,950 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,219 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,065 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krysta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krysta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Krysta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krysta, and how old are they?
6,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,566 Americans ever recorded as Krysta. The median Krysta alive today is 34 years old; half are between 28 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 5,941 people named Krysta (5,936 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,428 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 149 |
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 Krysta born?
The states with the most babies named Krysta are California, Texas and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 709 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 539 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 314 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 301 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 258 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 234 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 222 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 172 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 128 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 123 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Krysta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krysta is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1961 it was given 1.1 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 Krysta 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 Krysta?
Krysta is a less common spelling of Krista: SSA has recorded 6,566 Krysta and 73,863 Krista since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 235,189 babies since 1880, Krysta is the fourth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 80 babies recorded by SSA was a Krysta (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 Krysta
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 Krysta and names like it
- Compare Krysta and KristaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKrysta peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krysta since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Krysta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krysta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.