Krystan — girls' name
397 babies named Krystan in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Krystan was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Krystan in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Krystan
The Social Security Administration has registered 397 babies named Krystan between 1981 and 2009, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Krystan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Krystan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 181 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Krystan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Krystan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Krystan 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 397 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.
Krystan at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Krystan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1981
- Peak year (1991)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
397 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 30 births in a single year.
Krystan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 181 births that decade — 46% of Krystan's all-time total
Krystan decade highlights
- Peak decade 181 births
- Runner-up 153 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Krystan's strongest decade
181 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Krystan by state
Where Krystan concentrates geographically — total births since 1981
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 21 | 5.3% |
21 of 397 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 5.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 5.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1981–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.