Meaning not yet researched.
Cristian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 906 in 2025. Its best rank was #127 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #127 in 1995; #362 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cristian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#362 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #127.
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Cristian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 906 boys in 2025. Peak: #127 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 3,024 (2006).
In 2025, 906 US boys were named Cristian, making it the 362nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #320 in 2024. That is 173 fewer than the 1,079 boys named Cristian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #127, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,024, in 2006. For comparison, it was #271 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cristian in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 71,051 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 27,400 babies named Cristian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,693 US boys were named Cristian; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,214. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,885 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cristian ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #184 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Christian (473,843 babies since 1880), Kristian (27,634 babies since 1880), Cristiano (3,898 babies since 1880) and Cristi (3,203 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Crystian, Cristyan and Crystan 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: Crystian (363), Cristyan (29), Crystan (28), Criztian (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 Cristian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 11 | #184 | #179 |
| California | 189 | #194 | #184 |
| Texas | 163 | #241 | #169 |
| Maryland | 23 | #247 | #379 |
| Illinois | 44 | #254 | #259 |
| Arizona | 29 | #273 | #196 |
| Washington | 26 | #290 | #323 |
| Nevada | 10 | #304 | #204 |
| Indiana | 23 | #325 | #360 |
| Georgia | 37 | #329 | #320 |
| Oregon | 12 | #335 | #360 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #348 | #348 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #376 | #409 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #377 | #381 |
| New Jersey | 21 | #382 | #208 |
| Virginia | 20 | #390 | #317 |
| Tennessee | 21 | #390 | #403 |
| Florida | 49 | #394 | #225 |
| Kansas | 9 | #397 | #315 |
| Alabama | 13 | #406 | #371 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #431 | #329 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #452 | #247 |
| Iowa | 7 | #457 | #300 |
| Colorado | 12 | #473 | #289 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #478 | #286 |
| New York | 30 | #532 | #286 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #642 | #546 |
| Michigan | 12 | #646 | #408 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #662 | #477 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #686 | #645 |
| Utah | 5 | #725 | #572 |
| Ohio | 9 | #874 | #450 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #933 | #476 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 906 | #362 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,079 | #320 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,030 | #325 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,047 | #322 |
| 2021 | — | — | 993 | #330 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,654 | 988 | #332 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,110 | #306 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,142 | #301 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,539 | 1,184 | #297 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,224 | 1,214 | #297 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,927 | 1,350 | #271 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,346 | #273 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,048 | 1,537 | #234 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,819 | 1,675 | #217 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,398 | 2,007 | #189 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,363 | 2,069 | #182 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,547 | 2,399 | #162 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,179 | 2,702 | #150 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,021 | 2,918 | #139 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,964 | 3,024 | #134 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,989 | 2,746 | #142 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,158 | 2,856 | #139 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,633 | 2,805 | #145 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,125 | 2,685 | #146 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,344 | 2,630 | #150 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,080 | 2,423 | #160 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,824 | 2,341 | #158 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,942 | 2,566 | #144 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,889 | 2,331 | #145 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,348 | 2,847 | #130 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,031 | 2,848 | #127 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,934 | 2,542 | #138 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,925 | 1,786 | #180 |
| 1992 | 58 | #2,280 | 1,048 | #272 |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,740 | 670 | #357 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,207 | 550 | #417 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,149 | 391 | #484 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,608 | 245 | #598 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,325 | 194 | #656 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,860 | 234 | #581 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,436 | 183 | #646 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,031 | 167 | #672 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,579 | 145 | #715 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,270 | 164 | #676 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,423 | 119 | #804 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,298 | 108 | #853 |
| 1979 | — | — | 66 | #1,100 |
| 1978 | — | — | 62 | #1,114 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,709 | 75 | #993 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,284 | 57 | #1,128 |
| 1975 | — | — | 54 | #1,149 |
| 1974 | — | — | 54 | #1,117 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,201 | 47 | #1,204 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,048 | 54 | #1,110 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,933 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,136 |
| 1969 | — | — | 29 | #1,501 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #1,975 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,043 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,185 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,738 |
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).