Meaning not yet researched.
Krystian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,768 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,768 in 2009; #4,969 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Krystian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,969 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,768.
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Krystian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,768 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 86 (2009).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Krystian, making it the 4,969th most common boys’ name of the year, up 382 places from #5,351 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 18 boys named Krystian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,768, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #3,475 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Krystian in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,961, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 26. For comparison, it was #10,533 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Krystian in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 2,117 US babies have been given the name, 23% of them girls and 77% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 813 babies named Krystian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 303 US boys were named Krystian; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christian (473,843 babies since 1880), Cristian (71,051 babies since 1880), Kristian (27,634 babies since 1880) and Cristiano (3,898 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 Krystian 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 | — | — | 20 | #4,969 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,351 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,851 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,385 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,318 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,429 | 32 | #3,461 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #3,028 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,754 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,225 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,961 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,533 | 32 | #3,475 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,985 | 50 | #2,500 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,661 | 45 | #2,646 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,863 | 47 | #2,616 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,929 | 64 | #2,096 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,369 | 57 | #2,277 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,902 | 86 | #1,768 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,763 | 79 | #1,854 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,325 | 81 | #1,806 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,633 | 76 | #1,816 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,822 | 67 | #1,900 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,468 | 48 | #2,365 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,270 | 62 | #1,897 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,265 | 49 | #2,181 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,958 | 57 | #1,925 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,593 | 50 | #2,034 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,071 | 48 | #2,011 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,438 | 40 | #2,257 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,722 | 43 | #2,078 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,187 | 51 | #1,804 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,827 | 26 | #2,809 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,617 | 35 | #2,283 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,565 | 27 | #2,670 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,954 | 24 | #2,886 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,278 | 26 | #2,649 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,961 | 15 | #3,885 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,952 | 10 | #5,020 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,477 | 10 | #4,622 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,769 | 6 | #6,580 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,379 | 7 | #5,687 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,941 | 7 | #5,485 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,833 |
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).