Krystin
Krystin was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 3,131 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,050 Americans named Krystin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 31 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krystin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Krystin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Krystin is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, one of the modern spelling variants of Kristin.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Krystin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,867, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
207 babies in 1989, the peak
Krystin peaked in 1989, when 207 girls were given it, #886 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #12,867 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,822 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,195 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,363 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,806 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,279 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,944 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,041 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,733 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,524 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 25 | #5,638 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,464 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,966 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,829 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,773 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,532 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,913 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,219 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,614 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,579 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,717 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,055 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,906 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,728 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,614 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 129 | #1,317 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,367 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 156 | #1,133 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 173 | #1,050 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 204 | #931 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 207 | #886 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 185 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 189 | #891 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 167 | #948 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 170 | #929 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 96 | #1,300 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 82 | #1,433 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 93 | #1,340 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,510 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,464 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,840 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,331 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,066 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,760 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,995 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,039 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,275 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,955 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,530 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,521 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,653 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krystin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krystin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Krystin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krystin, and how old are they?
3,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,131 Americans ever recorded as Krystin. The median Krystin alive today is 36 years old; half are between 31 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,724 people named Krystin (2,707 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,063 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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 Krystin born?
The states with the most babies named Krystin are Texas, California and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 269 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 257 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 147 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 129 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 121 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 109 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 45 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Krystin 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 437,264 babies since 1880, Krystin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 157 babies recorded by SSA was a Krystin (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 Krystin
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 Krystin and names like it
- Compare Krystin and KristenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKrystin peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krystin since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Krystin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krystin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.