Krystian
Krystian was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,968 among boys’ names; 2,117 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Krystian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krystian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Krystian mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Krystian is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Christian”
Learned borrowing from Latin Chrīstiānus. Doublet of chrześcijanin.
/ˈkrɘs.tjan/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Krystian?
#4,968 among boys’ names, 2025
Krystian fell from #3,474 in 2015 to #4,968 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 11.7 per million.
102 babies in 2009, the peak
Krystian peaked in 2009, when 102 babies were given it (86 boys, #1,767 among boys’ names). The 20 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 20 | #4,968 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 18 | #5,347 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 29 | #3,848 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 35 | #3,383 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 24 | #4,314 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,424 | 32 | #3,459 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 40 | #3,026 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 29 | #3,750 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 36 | #3,224 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 40 | #2,960 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,528 | 32 | #3,474 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,979 | 50 | #2,498 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,656 | 45 | #2,644 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,856 | 47 | #2,615 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,925 | 64 | #2,095 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,366 | 57 | #2,276 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,898 | 86 | #1,767 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,759 | 79 | #1,854 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,321 | 81 | #1,806 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,629 | 76 | #1,816 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,817 | 67 | #1,896 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,464 | 48 | #2,361 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,265 | 62 | #1,894 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,259 | 49 | #2,177 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,953 | 57 | #1,921 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,588 | 50 | #2,030 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,065 | 48 | #2,008 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,435 | 40 | #2,254 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,717 | 43 | #2,075 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,182 | 51 | #1,800 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,822 | 26 | #2,804 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,612 | 35 | #2,278 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,559 | 27 | #2,664 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,948 | 24 | #2,880 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,272 | 26 | #2,643 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,956 | 15 | #3,879 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,946 | 10 | #5,013 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,472 | 10 | #4,617 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,764 | 6 | #6,573 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,376 | 7 | #5,681 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,938 | 7 | #5,480 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,829 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Krystian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,117 Americans recorded as Krystian, 23% are girls and 77% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Krystian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krystian, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,117 Americans ever recorded as Krystian. The median Krystian alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,999 people named Krystian (396 women and girls, 1,603 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 457 |
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 Krystian born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 6 | #1,215 | 3.5× |
Where Krystian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krystian is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1983 it was given 3.5 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 boys’ 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 Krystian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 104,836 babies since 1880, Krystian is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 1,168 babies (1.7%), again the fourth most given.
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 Krystian
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 Krystian and names like it
- Compare Krystian and CristianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKrystian peaked in 2009.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krystian since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Krystian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Krystian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Krystian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.