Fewer than five US girls were named Krysta in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #569, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 419. For comparison, it was #6,868 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Krysta in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 6,566 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,598 babies named Krysta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 71 US girls were named Krysta; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 18.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Krystal (75,376 babies since 1880), Krista (73,863 babies since 1880), Crista (4,246 babies since 1880) and Crysta (1,777 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.