Meaning not yet researched.
Kristyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #519 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #519 in 1990; #6,700 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,700 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #519.
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Kristyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #519 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 459 (1990).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Kristyn, making it the 6,700th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,574 places from #9,274 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 11 girls named Kristyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #519, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 459. For comparison, it was #4,796 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristyn in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 8,830 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,142 babies named Kristyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 142 US girls were named Kristyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kristin (180,951 babies since 1880), Kristen (220,952 babies since 1880), Kristine (84,514 babies since 1880) and Kristian (27,634 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kristyn 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 | 17 | #6,700 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,274 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,998 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,763 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,745 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,212 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,864 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,386 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,416 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,796 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,716 | — | — |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,966 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,328 | — | — |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1998 | 167 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1997 | 188 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1996 | 259 | #797 | — | — |
| 1995 | 277 | #739 | — | — |
| 1994 | 282 | #736 | — | — |
| 1993 | 299 | #713 | — | — |
| 1992 | 351 | #643 | — | — |
| 1991 | 377 | #598 | — | — |
| 1990 | 459 | #519 | — | — |
| 1989 | 438 | #529 | — | — |
| 1988 | 414 | #533 | — | — |
| 1987 | 307 | #625 | — | — |
| 1986 | 318 | #605 | — | — |
| 1985 | 313 | #607 | — | — |
| 1984 | 295 | #606 | — | — |
| 1983 | 247 | #688 | — | — |
| 1982 | 289 | #623 | — | — |
| 1981 | 298 | #610 | — | — |
| 1980 | 223 | #745 | — | — |
| 1979 | 143 | #998 | — | — |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1976 | 95 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1975 | 98 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1972 | 93 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1971 | 119 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1970 | 90 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1969 | 91 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1966 | 57 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,141 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,312 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,807 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,641 | — | — |
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).