Meaning not yet researched.
Kristine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #104 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #104 in 1966; #3,228 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,228 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #104.
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Kristine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #104 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 3,532 (1970).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Kristine, making it the 3,228th most common girls’ name of the year, up 633 places from #3,861 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 39 girls named Kristine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #104, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,532, in 1970. For comparison, it was #2,392 in 2015 and #214 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristine in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 84,514 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 24,185 babies named Kristine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 556 US girls were named Kristine; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 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), Kristen (220,952 babies since 1880) and Kristin (180,951 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristianne, Krystyne and Crystine are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chris, Christy, Crissy, Kris, Kristy and Tina.
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. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kristianne (323), Krystyne (96), Crystine (28), Kristanne (6).
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 | 49 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 2015 | 77 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 2007 | 177 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 2005 | 187 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2004 | 212 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2003 | 197 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 2002 | 223 | #989 | — | — |
| 2001 | 261 | #881 | — | — |
| 2000 | 312 | #741 | — | — |
| 1999 | 284 | #776 | — | — |
| 1998 | 365 | #636 | — | — |
| 1997 | 373 | #609 | — | — |
| 1996 | 480 | #500 | — | — |
| 1995 | 517 | #478 | — | — |
| 1994 | 657 | #386 | — | — |
| 1993 | 797 | #329 | — | — |
| 1992 | 875 | #316 | — | — |
| 1991 | 997 | #279 | 5 | #8,976 |
| 1990 | 1,196 | #237 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,379 | #194 | 8 | #5,961 |
| 1988 | 1,376 | #196 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,369 | #199 | 5 | #7,618 |
| 1986 | 1,369 | #191 | 9 | #4,687 |
| 1985 | 1,441 | #188 | 8 | #4,955 |
| 1984 | 1,359 | #196 | 6 | #6,013 |
| 1983 | 1,259 | #204 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,233 | #214 | 5 | #6,918 |
| 1981 | 1,362 | #196 | 8 | #4,761 |
| 1980 | 1,424 | #189 | 8 | #4,749 |
| 1979 | 1,455 | #183 | — | — |
| 1978 | 1,732 | #157 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,564 | #174 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,357 | #187 | 6 | #5,307 |
| 1975 | 1,559 | #169 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,863 | #147 | 6 | #4,969 |
| 1973 | 2,148 | #133 | 14 | #2,659 |
| 1972 | 2,370 | #127 | 11 | #3,072 |
| 1971 | 2,963 | #120 | 7 | #4,184 |
| 1970 | 3,532 | #109 | 9 | #3,414 |
| 1969 | 3,322 | #110 | 14 | #2,367 |
| 1968 | 3,411 | #105 | 7 | #3,530 |
| 1967 | 3,292 | #106 | 7 | #3,416 |
| 1966 | 3,314 | #104 | 10 | #2,716 |
| 1965 | 3,162 | #120 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 1964 | 2,290 | #171 | 9 | #2,969 |
| 1963 | 1,747 | #203 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,329 | #239 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,174 | #261 | 7 | #3,526 |
| 1960 | 1,084 | #273 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,020 | #278 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,082 | #267 | 5 | #4,249 |
| 1957 | 986 | #282 | — | — |
| 1956 | 995 | #273 | — | — |
| 1955 | 992 | #274 | — | — |
| 1954 | 866 | #289 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,247 | #228 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,885 | #165 | 5 | #4,024 |
| 1951 | 1,755 | #172 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,247 | #214 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,174 | #219 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,033 | #231 | — | — |
| 1947 | 718 | #291 | — | — |
| 1946 | 446 | #360 | — | — |
| 1945 | 213 | #503 | — | — |
| 1944 | 158 | #583 | — | — |
| 1943 | 123 | #686 | — | — |
| 1942 | 88 | #819 | — | — |
| 1941 | 61 | #946 | — | — |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,682 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,943 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,742 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,221 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,682 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,152 | — | — |
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).