Meaning not yet researched.
Kristin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #31 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #31 in 1981; #4,706 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,706 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #31.
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Kristin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #31 in 1981 · most girls in one year: 9,737 (1981).
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Kristin, making it the 4,706th most common girls’ name of the year, down 181 places from #4,525 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 31 girls named Kristin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #31, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9,737. For comparison, it was #1,845 in 2015 and #425 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristin in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1932 with 7 babies. In all, 180,951 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 71,041 babies named Kristin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 473 US girls were named Kristin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christine (588,495 babies since 1880), Christina (481,707 babies since 1880), Kristina (137,118 babies since 1880) and Kristine (84,514 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Crystin, Kristiann and Cristion are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chris.
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 Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Crystin (225), Kristiann (206), Cristion (43), Cristain (35), Kristhian (30), Krisztian (20), Risten (12), Kriztian (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,706 | — | — |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,613 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,482 | 8 | #9,376 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,435 | 6 | #11,547 |
| 2015 | 112 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,568 | 6 | #11,550 |
| 2012 | 155 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2010 | 228 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 2009 | 261 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2008 | 317 | #880 | 5 | #13,709 |
| 2007 | 355 | #811 | 9 | #8,622 |
| 2006 | 510 | #575 | 11 | #7,224 |
| 2005 | 539 | #535 | 6 | #10,887 |
| 2004 | 553 | #521 | 11 | #6,795 |
| 2003 | 716 | #418 | — | — |
| 2002 | 829 | #362 | 6 | #10,128 |
| 2001 | 963 | #320 | 8 | #7,995 |
| 2000 | 1,056 | #301 | 11 | #6,149 |
| 1999 | 1,194 | #266 | 12 | #5,519 |
| 1998 | 1,447 | #211 | 12 | #5,334 |
| 1997 | 1,752 | #174 | 7 | #7,751 |
| 1996 | 2,193 | #147 | 10 | #5,792 |
| 1995 | 2,418 | #131 | 17 | #3,779 |
| 1994 | 2,840 | #114 | 16 | #4,020 |
| 1993 | 2,991 | #109 | 14 | #4,363 |
| 1992 | 3,597 | #90 | 18 | #3,542 |
| 1991 | 4,087 | #86 | 25 | #2,721 |
| 1990 | 5,300 | #65 | 26 | #2,585 |
| 1989 | 6,064 | #60 | 44 | #1,747 |
| 1988 | 6,019 | #58 | 27 | #2,279 |
| 1987 | 5,463 | #55 | 44 | #1,597 |
| 1986 | 6,000 | #50 | 37 | #1,710 |
| 1985 | 6,566 | #49 | 50 | #1,380 |
| 1984 | 7,007 | #47 | 50 | #1,339 |
| 1983 | 7,267 | #42 | 38 | #1,578 |
| 1982 | 8,734 | #37 | 61 | #1,184 |
| 1981 | 9,737 | #31 | 64 | #1,146 |
| 1980 | 7,701 | #37 | 68 | #1,099 |
| 1979 | 4,264 | #73 | 59 | #1,185 |
| 1978 | 3,807 | #78 | 59 | #1,162 |
| 1977 | 3,605 | #82 | 58 | #1,151 |
| 1976 | 3,627 | #74 | 66 | #1,023 |
| 1975 | 3,880 | #74 | 77 | #935 |
| 1974 | 4,218 | #72 | 82 | #895 |
| 1973 | 3,903 | #78 | 53 | #1,133 |
| 1972 | 4,586 | #67 | 77 | #913 |
| 1971 | 4,861 | #71 | 58 | #1,074 |
| 1970 | 5,633 | #63 | 69 | #973 |
| 1969 | 4,753 | #76 | 52 | #1,079 |
| 1968 | 4,134 | #84 | 27 | #1,529 |
| 1967 | 3,600 | #97 | 20 | #1,790 |
| 1966 | 3,262 | #107 | 19 | #1,790 |
| 1965 | 2,829 | #135 | 28 | #1,469 |
| 1964 | 1,724 | #206 | 21 | #1,771 |
| 1963 | 1,580 | #216 | 17 | #2,007 |
| 1962 | 876 | #317 | 14 | #2,241 |
| 1961 | 822 | #328 | 8 | #3,245 |
| 1960 | 774 | #340 | 7 | #3,508 |
| 1959 | 710 | #356 | 14 | #2,253 |
| 1958 | 602 | #372 | — | — |
| 1957 | 537 | #395 | 8 | #3,149 |
| 1956 | 453 | #429 | — | — |
| 1955 | 464 | #408 | — | — |
| 1954 | 407 | #432 | 5 | #4,118 |
| 1953 | 446 | #403 | 6 | #3,626 |
| 1952 | 440 | #394 | — | — |
| 1951 | 422 | #400 | 7 | #3,221 |
| 1950 | 356 | #425 | — | — |
| 1949 | 322 | #444 | — | — |
| 1948 | 317 | #448 | — | — |
| 1947 | 275 | #496 | — | — |
| 1946 | 239 | #510 | — | — |
| 1945 | 125 | #659 | — | — |
| 1944 | 108 | #729 | — | — |
| 1943 | 100 | #779 | — | — |
| 1942 | 87 | #825 | — | — |
| 1941 | 61 | #945 | — | — |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1939 | 56 | #943 | — | — |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,753 | — | — |
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).