Krysti
Krysti was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 792 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krysti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Krysti?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,898, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1986, the peak
Krysti peaked in 1986, when 53 girls were given it, #2,035 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,898 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,504 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,518 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,714 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,066 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,211 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,444 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,860 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,440 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,455 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 32 | #3,399 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,755 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,586 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,824 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,139 | 29.3 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,035 | 30.9 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,238 | 26.7 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,884 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,454 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,983 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,678 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,064 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,962 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,239 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,782 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,799 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,322 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,625 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,477 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,648 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,845 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,908 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,061 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,344 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,170 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,459 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,057 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,797 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,398 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,207 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,207 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,842 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,303 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,558 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krysti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krysti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Krysti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krysti, and how old are they?
An estimated 755 Americans named Krysti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 37 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 783 people named Krysti (781 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 765 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 Krysti?
Krysti is a less common spelling of Kristi: SSA has recorded 792 Krysti and 76,622 Kristi since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 271,931 babies since 1880, Krysti is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 93 babies recorded by SSA was a Krysti (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 Krysti
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 Krysti and names like it
- Compare Krysti and KristiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKrysti peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krysti since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Krysti.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krysti alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.