Krysten
Krysten was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 4,038 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,940 Americans named Krysten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 29 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krysten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Krysten?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,849, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
255 babies in 1988, the peak
Krysten peaked in 1988, when 255 girls were given it, #738 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,849 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,836 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,577 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,731 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,168 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,512 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,662 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,215 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,450 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,113 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 33 | #4,381 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,041 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,846 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,917 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,425 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,972 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,421 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,763 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,070 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,940 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,651 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,212 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,343 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,636 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,817 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,356 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 137 | #1,270 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 130 | #1,285 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 157 | #1,136 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 168 | #1,080 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 185 | #1,015 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 231 | #864 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 235 | #836 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 237 | #805 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 255 | #738 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 192 | #885 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 182 | #898 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 173 | #915 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 106 | #1,226 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 102 | #1,242 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,408 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,139 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,202 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,238 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,530 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,595 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,850 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,259 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,868 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,274 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,954 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,453 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,669 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,032 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krysten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krysten has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Krysten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krysten, and how old are they?
3,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,038 Americans ever recorded as Krysten. The median Krysten alive today is 35 years old; half are between 29 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 3,583 people named Krysten (3,560 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 256 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 961 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 146 |
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 Krysten born?
The states with the most babies named Krysten are California, Texas and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 368 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 337 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 205 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 193 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 147 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 122 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 87 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 86 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Krysten is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krysten is most over-represented in Florida: since 1960 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 Krysten 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 Krysten?
Krysten is a less common spelling of Kristen: SSA has recorded 4,038 Krysten and 220,952 Kristen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 480,271 babies since 1880, Krysten is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 217 babies recorded by SSA was a Krysten (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 Krysten
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 Krysten and names like it
- Compare Krysten and KristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKrysten peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krysten since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Krysten.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krysten alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.