Meaning not yet researched.
Christen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #405 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #405 in 1982; #9,591 in 2025. About 50% of babies named Christen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,591 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #405.
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Christen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #405 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 569 (1982).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Christen, making it the 9,591st most common girls’ name of the year, up 862 places from #10,453 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 9 girls named Christen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #405, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 569. For comparison, it was #4,243 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Christen, making it the 7,775th most common boys’ name of the year, up 669 places from #8,444 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 9 boys named Christen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,253, reached in 1984. The most boys given the name in a single year was 61, in 1991. For comparison, it was #4,002 in 2015 and #3,377 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christen in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 13,706 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 5,177 babies named Christen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 169 US girls were named Christen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christian (473,843 babies since 1880), Kristen (220,952 babies since 1880), Kristian (27,634 babies since 1880) and Christine (588,495 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Khristen, Chrysten and Khrysten are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Khristen (153), Chrysten (62), Khrysten (29), Chrysteen (5), Khriston (5).
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 Christen 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 | 10 | #9,591 | 10 | #7,775 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,453 | 9 | #8,444 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,112 | 14 | #6,282 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,184 | 14 | #6,211 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,708 | 17 | #5,377 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,695 | 22 | #4,447 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,097 | 13 | #6,482 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,307 | 23 | #4,386 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,082 | 16 | #5,571 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,799 | 27 | #3,900 |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,243 | 26 | #4,002 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,570 | 22 | #4,417 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,267 | 21 | #4,498 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,432 | 22 | #4,417 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,461 | 25 | #4,007 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,511 | 30 | #3,550 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,831 | 23 | #4,302 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,334 | 33 | #3,354 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,517 | 36 | #3,143 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,516 | 32 | #3,319 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,144 | 38 | #2,810 |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,103 | 56 | #2,104 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,989 | 43 | #2,437 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,635 | 40 | #2,475 |
| 2001 | 126 | #1,490 | 41 | #2,393 |
| 2000 | 138 | #1,358 | 49 | #2,055 |
| 1999 | 177 | #1,121 | 40 | #2,268 |
| 1998 | 191 | #1,036 | 32 | #2,604 |
| 1997 | 247 | #838 | 42 | #2,102 |
| 1996 | 261 | #792 | 49 | #1,845 |
| 1995 | 250 | #795 | 31 | #2,457 |
| 1994 | 310 | #681 | 41 | #2,019 |
| 1993 | 289 | #731 | 49 | #1,742 |
| 1992 | 329 | #670 | 52 | #1,662 |
| 1991 | 342 | #646 | 61 | #1,453 |
| 1990 | 343 | #650 | 49 | #1,664 |
| 1989 | 404 | #555 | 47 | #1,662 |
| 1988 | 428 | #515 | 51 | #1,486 |
| 1987 | 376 | #535 | 59 | #1,273 |
| 1986 | 453 | #473 | 41 | #1,595 |
| 1985 | 511 | #432 | 49 | #1,392 |
| 1984 | 501 | #425 | 54 | #1,253 |
| 1983 | 503 | #429 | 34 | #1,690 |
| 1982 | 569 | #405 | 32 | #1,780 |
| 1981 | 526 | #417 | 31 | #1,818 |
| 1980 | 478 | #448 | 30 | #1,860 |
| 1979 | 252 | #680 | 31 | #1,793 |
| 1978 | 209 | #745 | 27 | #1,874 |
| 1977 | 184 | #815 | 34 | #1,613 |
| 1976 | 176 | #796 | 42 | #1,379 |
| 1975 | 220 | #679 | 44 | #1,306 |
| 1974 | 260 | #605 | 41 | #1,336 |
| 1973 | 134 | #920 | 30 | #1,588 |
| 1972 | 109 | #1,056 | 37 | #1,392 |
| 1971 | 143 | #911 | 34 | #1,468 |
| 1970 | 137 | #936 | 29 | #1,583 |
| 1969 | 126 | #952 | 26 | #1,611 |
| 1968 | 94 | #1,100 | 17 | #1,968 |
| 1967 | 73 | #1,256 | 17 | #1,916 |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,552 | 6 | #3,586 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,694 | 21 | #1,728 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,982 | 15 | #2,131 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,096 | 12 | #2,434 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,366 | 15 | #2,128 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,108 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,001 | 14 | #2,215 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,107 | 12 | #2,387 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,260 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,366 | 12 | #2,383 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,609 | 10 | #2,596 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,605 | 14 | #2,128 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,794 | 8 | #2,948 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,852 | 9 | #2,708 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,800 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,377 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,366 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,757 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,048 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,513 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,722 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,194 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,606 | 6 | #3,621 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,931 | 6 | #3,808 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,689 | 5 | #4,014 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,421 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,475 | — | — |
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).