Meaning not yet researched.
Krista: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #93 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #93 in 1986; #3,679 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Krista in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,679 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #93.
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Krista: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #93 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 3,054 (1986).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Krista, making it the 3,679th most common girls’ name of the year, up 939 places from #4,618 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 30 girls named Krista in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #93, reached in 1986. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,054. For comparison, it was #1,681 in 2015 and #828 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Krista in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 6 babies. In all, 73,863 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 22,935 babies named Krista.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 611 US girls were named Krista; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christa (32,870 babies since 1880), Kristal (12,079 babies since 1880), Krysta (6,566 babies since 1880) and Crista (4,246 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cresta, Kresta and Kristah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Estonian and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cresta (236), Kresta (160), Kristah (16), Krystah (10).
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 Krista 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 | 41 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,618 | — | — |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2015 | 127 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2014 | 119 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2011 | 186 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 2010 | 222 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2009 | 255 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 2008 | 312 | #890 | — | — |
| 2007 | 355 | #810 | — | — |
| 2006 | 408 | #696 | — | — |
| 2005 | 482 | #590 | — | — |
| 2004 | 528 | #542 | — | — |
| 2003 | 680 | #441 | — | — |
| 2002 | 595 | #474 | — | — |
| 2001 | 621 | #449 | — | — |
| 2000 | 695 | #408 | — | — |
| 1999 | 806 | #366 | — | — |
| 1998 | 944 | #318 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,078 | #269 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,312 | #221 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,467 | #202 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,627 | #182 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,896 | #166 | — | — |
| 1992 | 2,028 | #150 | 6 | #8,006 |
| 1991 | 1,911 | #155 | — | — |
| 1990 | 2,144 | #145 | — | — |
| 1989 | 2,224 | #137 | 7 | #6,624 |
| 1988 | 2,566 | #112 | 5 | #7,967 |
| 1987 | 2,550 | #108 | 9 | #4,775 |
| 1986 | 3,054 | #93 | 11 | #4,011 |
| 1985 | 2,183 | #134 | 6 | #6,200 |
| 1984 | 2,170 | #133 | 9 | #4,396 |
| 1983 | 2,043 | #142 | 10 | #4,028 |
| 1982 | 1,695 | #173 | 7 | #5,344 |
| 1981 | 1,848 | #153 | — | — |
| 1980 | 2,531 | #121 | 7 | #5,254 |
| 1979 | 2,212 | #130 | 5 | #6,589 |
| 1978 | 1,733 | #156 | 9 | #4,025 |
| 1977 | 1,762 | #155 | 8 | #4,409 |
| 1976 | 1,593 | #163 | 7 | #4,702 |
| 1975 | 1,695 | #159 | 5 | #5,937 |
| 1974 | 1,808 | #152 | 8 | #4,026 |
| 1973 | 1,954 | #143 | 5 | #5,516 |
| 1972 | 2,049 | #142 | 12 | #2,920 |
| 1971 | 2,412 | #134 | 5 | #5,319 |
| 1970 | 2,589 | #136 | 7 | #4,066 |
| 1969 | 1,321 | #227 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,049 | #257 | — | — |
| 1967 | 863 | #291 | — | — |
| 1966 | 846 | #300 | — | — |
| 1965 | 752 | #328 | — | — |
| 1964 | 613 | #390 | — | — |
| 1963 | 527 | #421 | — | — |
| 1962 | 447 | #459 | — | — |
| 1961 | 344 | #528 | — | — |
| 1960 | 314 | #551 | — | — |
| 1959 | 302 | #562 | — | — |
| 1958 | 239 | #637 | — | — |
| 1957 | 238 | #633 | — | — |
| 1956 | 241 | #615 | — | — |
| 1955 | 241 | #593 | — | — |
| 1954 | 216 | #619 | — | — |
| 1953 | 172 | #691 | — | — |
| 1952 | 154 | #719 | — | — |
| 1951 | 129 | #783 | — | — |
| 1950 | 111 | #828 | — | — |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,915 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,045 | — | — |
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).