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Kristen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 96 in 2025. Its best rank was #33 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #33 in 1982; #1,999 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Kristen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,999 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #33.
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Kristen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 96 girls in 2025. Peak: #33 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 9,534 (1982).
In 2025, 96 US girls were named Kristen, making it the 1,999th most common girls’ name of the year, down 716 places from #1,283 in 2024. That is 85 fewer than the 181 girls named Kristen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #33, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9,534. For comparison, it was #890 in 2015 and #678 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristen in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1938 with 7 babies. In all, 220,952 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 83,833 babies named Kristen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,648 US girls were named Kristen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 253. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,742 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kristen ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #991 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kristine (84,514 babies since 1880), Christen (13,706 babies since 1880), Kristin (180,951 babies since 1880) and Kristian (27,634 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristeen, Kriston and Kristene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chris.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Estonian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kristeen (1,321), Kriston (1,266), Kristene (1,008), Krystyn (711), Krystan (397), Kristyne (396), Cristan (369), Kristien (305), Kristain (303), Cristyn (286), Kristion (181), Crysten (154), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #991 | #827 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,060 | #1,006 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,470 | #715 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,498 | #920 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,673 | #887 |
| New York | 6 | #1,956 | #722 |
| California | 8 | #2,395 | #944 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | #1,999 | 10 | #7,985 |
| 2024 | 181 | #1,283 | 8 | #9,486 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,508 | 9 | #8,625 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,747 | 8 | #9,476 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,573 | 9 | #8,555 |
| 2020 | 137 | #1,548 | 10 | #7,839 |
| 2019 | 174 | #1,316 | 10 | #7,962 |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,230 | 7 | #10,279 |
| 2017 | 221 | #1,129 | 13 | #6,524 |
| 2016 | 253 | #1,045 | 13 | #6,560 |
| 2015 | 310 | #890 | 10 | #7,807 |
| 2014 | 340 | #815 | 10 | #7,892 |
| 2013 | 389 | #714 | 5 | #13,222 |
| 2012 | 429 | #659 | 13 | #6,514 |
| 2011 | 430 | #660 | 8 | #9,244 |
| 2010 | 508 | #577 | 13 | #6,570 |
| 2009 | 566 | #533 | 12 | #7,057 |
| 2008 | 644 | #491 | 13 | #6,622 |
| 2007 | 768 | #428 | 12 | #6,897 |
| 2006 | 876 | #372 | 13 | #6,310 |
| 2005 | 984 | #326 | 13 | #6,068 |
| 2004 | 1,220 | #264 | 21 | #4,200 |
| 2003 | 1,437 | #229 | 16 | #4,943 |
| 2002 | 1,716 | #186 | 14 | #5,284 |
| 2001 | 1,991 | #162 | 15 | #5,036 |
| 2000 | 2,356 | #142 | 9 | #7,155 |
| 1999 | 2,846 | #114 | 18 | #4,089 |
| 1998 | 3,348 | #102 | 25 | #3,152 |
| 1997 | 4,085 | #82 | 27 | #2,868 |
| 1996 | 4,851 | #70 | 33 | #2,406 |
| 1995 | 5,398 | #65 | 39 | #2,125 |
| 1994 | 5,871 | #55 | 37 | #2,204 |
| 1993 | 5,534 | #61 | 26 | #2,753 |
| 1992 | 6,253 | #53 | 38 | #2,071 |
| 1991 | 6,816 | #48 | 40 | #1,940 |
| 1990 | 8,073 | #42 | 55 | #1,539 |
| 1989 | 8,803 | #36 | 67 | #1,343 |
| 1988 | 8,382 | #36 | 54 | #1,440 |
| 1987 | 7,361 | #42 | 53 | #1,394 |
| 1986 | 7,844 | #41 | 63 | #1,210 |
| 1985 | 8,445 | #38 | 69 | #1,120 |
| 1984 | 8,385 | #38 | 61 | #1,170 |
| 1983 | 8,618 | #37 | 58 | #1,195 |
| 1982 | 9,534 | #33 | 62 | #1,173 |
| 1981 | 8,540 | #38 | 52 | #1,282 |
| 1980 | 7,316 | #39 | 66 | #1,119 |
| 1979 | 4,568 | #62 | 60 | #1,172 |
| 1978 | 4,368 | #62 | 56 | #1,194 |
| 1977 | 3,861 | #72 | 69 | #1,043 |
| 1976 | 3,653 | #73 | 60 | #1,089 |
| 1975 | 4,674 | #60 | 71 | #978 |
| 1974 | 6,052 | #45 | 68 | #997 |
| 1973 | 4,936 | #58 | 59 | #1,062 |
| 1972 | 3,527 | #85 | 56 | #1,092 |
| 1971 | 3,967 | #87 | 51 | #1,154 |
| 1970 | 4,600 | #83 | 47 | #1,213 |
| 1969 | 3,812 | #96 | 43 | #1,211 |
| 1968 | 3,243 | #107 | 25 | #1,600 |
| 1967 | 2,751 | #124 | 27 | #1,492 |
| 1966 | 2,323 | #149 | 30 | #1,413 |
| 1965 | 1,726 | #191 | 17 | #1,964 |
| 1964 | 1,333 | #239 | 19 | #1,874 |
| 1963 | 1,015 | #288 | 18 | #1,932 |
| 1962 | 755 | #344 | 16 | #2,085 |
| 1961 | 540 | #422 | 16 | #2,107 |
| 1960 | 541 | #415 | 18 | #1,948 |
| 1959 | 542 | #404 | 12 | #2,480 |
| 1958 | 390 | #482 | 11 | #2,585 |
| 1957 | 296 | #558 | 7 | #3,420 |
| 1956 | 249 | #606 | 9 | #2,886 |
| 1955 | 230 | #612 | 12 | #2,372 |
| 1954 | 217 | #617 | 11 | #2,538 |
| 1953 | 256 | #544 | 7 | #3,277 |
| 1952 | 280 | #501 | 16 | #1,979 |
| 1951 | 193 | #620 | 10 | #2,572 |
| 1950 | 158 | #678 | 7 | #3,192 |
| 1949 | 171 | #633 | 8 | #2,913 |
| 1948 | 162 | #655 | 5 | #3,956 |
| 1947 | 153 | #678 | 7 | #3,235 |
| 1946 | 93 | #859 | — | — |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1944 | 48 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,677 | — | — |
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).