Meaning not yet researched.
Christan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,727 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,727 in 1984; #9,072 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Christan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,072 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,727.
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Christan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,727 in 1984 · most boys in one year: 55 (2005).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Christan, making it the 9,072nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 80 places from #9,152 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 boys named Christan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,727, reached in 1984. The most boys given the name in a single year was 55, in 2005. For comparison, it was #3,602 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Christan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,587, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 74. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christan in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 6 babies. In all, 2,944 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 810 babies named Christan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 145 US boys were named Christan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christine (588,495 babies since 1880), Christian (473,843 babies since 1880), Christen (13,706 babies since 1880) and Christin (12,217 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Christan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,072 |
| 2024 | — | — | 8 | #9,152 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,610 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,902 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,048 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #9,765 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,666 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,583 |
| 2017 | — | — | 24 | #4,245 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,608 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,602 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,808 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,198 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,451 | 33 | #3,311 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,912 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,387 | 38 | #3,026 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,010 | 49 | #2,567 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,800 | 44 | #2,756 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,286 | 40 | #2,931 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,540 | 54 | #2,319 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,064 | 55 | #2,188 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,475 | 55 | #2,135 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,829 | 49 | #2,211 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,921 | 39 | #2,513 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,302 | 45 | #2,252 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,182 | 47 | #2,144 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,729 | 46 | #2,068 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,851 | 46 | #2,043 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,115 | 42 | #2,101 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,442 | 33 | #2,388 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,462 | 36 | #2,214 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,113 | 29 | #2,564 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,001 | 38 | #2,097 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,619 | 33 | #2,259 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,668 | 36 | #2,053 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,262 | 27 | #2,497 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,969 | 30 | #2,254 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,054 | 24 | #2,445 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,068 | 20 | #2,652 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,961 | 24 | #2,304 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,836 | 21 | #2,438 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,753 | 33 | #1,727 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,700 | 12 | #3,437 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,587 | 14 | #3,133 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,756 | 13 | #3,246 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,101 | 14 | #3,122 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,161 | 17 | #2,685 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,525 | 11 | #3,433 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,632 | 9 | #3,893 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,191 | 13 | #2,970 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,182 | 13 | #2,928 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,770 | 17 | #2,374 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,009 | 18 | #2,235 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,333 | 13 | #2,681 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,534 | 17 | #2,297 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,611 | 14 | #2,522 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,815 | 15 | #2,228 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,252 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,680 | — | — |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,665 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,707 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,961 | — | — |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,668 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,008 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).