Meaning not yet researched.
Kristian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 184 in 2025. Its best rank was #385 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #385 in 1996; #1,149 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Kristian in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,149 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #385.
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Kristian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 184 boys in 2025. Peak: #385 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 614 (1997).
In 2025, 184 US boys were named Kristian, making it the 1,149th most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #1,125 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 190 boys named Kristian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #385, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 614, in 1997. For comparison, it was #677 in 2015 and #2,907 in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Kristian, making it the 11,464th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,925 places from #6,539 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 18 girls named Kristian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #626, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 357. For comparison, it was #5,223 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristian in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 5 babies. In all, 27,634 US babies have been given the name, 25% of them girls and 75% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 7,850 babies named Kristian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,677 US boys were named Kristian; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 359. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,283 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kristian ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #725 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), Cristian (71,051 babies since 1880), Christen (13,706 babies since 1880) and Cristiano (3,898 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristyann and Kristieann 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: Kristyann (54), Kristieann (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 Kristian 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 6 | #725 | #507 |
| Illinois | 12 | #737 | #461 |
| Michigan | 10 | #746 | #854 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #767 | #571 |
| Florida | 20 | #767 | #640 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #813 | #384 |
| Texas | 28 | #906 | #647 |
| Virginia | 7 | #935 | #564 |
| New York | 13 | #971 | #656 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #984 | #528 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,052 | #736 |
| California | 16 | #1,220 | #789 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,302 | #606 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,464 | 184 | #1,149 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,539 | 190 | #1,125 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,811 | 214 | #1,022 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,482 | 238 | #955 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,122 | 252 | #912 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,497 | 279 | #825 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,091 | 289 | #795 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,247 | 326 | #732 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,958 | 346 | #709 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,497 | 359 | #690 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,223 | 375 | #677 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,064 | 400 | #655 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,106 | 400 | #621 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,032 | 442 | #581 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,480 | 462 | #551 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,858 | 468 | #542 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,279 | 531 | #508 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,737 | 546 | #502 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,498 | 565 | #475 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,365 | 578 | #466 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,328 | 580 | #446 |
| 2004 | 87 | #2,095 | 512 | #484 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,997 | 573 | #438 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,630 | 533 | #458 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,598 | 587 | #421 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,248 | 591 | #419 |
| 1999 | 169 | #1,157 | 566 | #415 |
| 1998 | 200 | #1,002 | 610 | #401 |
| 1997 | 214 | #929 | 614 | #389 |
| 1996 | 279 | #757 | 607 | #385 |
| 1995 | 254 | #785 | 583 | #397 |
| 1994 | 294 | #709 | 509 | #442 |
| 1993 | 239 | #828 | 520 | #428 |
| 1992 | 309 | #699 | 493 | #448 |
| 1991 | 341 | #647 | 377 | #511 |
| 1990 | 357 | #626 | 315 | #570 |
| 1989 | 310 | #661 | 218 | #676 |
| 1988 | 217 | #833 | 193 | #677 |
| 1987 | 254 | #715 | 171 | #697 |
| 1986 | 265 | #688 | 186 | #656 |
| 1985 | 276 | #659 | 182 | #649 |
| 1984 | 202 | #795 | 162 | #680 |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,215 | 134 | #747 |
| 1982 | 133 | #1,076 | 175 | #659 |
| 1981 | 140 | #1,028 | 148 | #711 |
| 1980 | 103 | #1,262 | 148 | #716 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,844 | 230 | #566 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,874 | 242 | #532 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,144 | 297 | #468 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,230 | 257 | #499 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,823 | 274 | #486 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,605 | 229 | #525 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,658 | 233 | #512 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,644 | 212 | #547 |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,762 | 221 | #539 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,940 | 168 | #625 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,857 | 142 | #663 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,039 | 76 | #836 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,897 | 63 | #914 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,281 | 46 | #1,096 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,477 | 41 | #1,197 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,221 | 39 | #1,252 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,140 | 48 | #1,109 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,062 | 30 | #1,446 |
| 1961 | — | — | 33 | #1,395 |
| 1960 | — | — | 37 | #1,309 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,746 | 44 | #1,178 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,068 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,149 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,569 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,709 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,929 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,151 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,573 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,907 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,526 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,174 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,564 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,840 |
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).