Cristen
Cristen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 966th, in 1982.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1982153 births
- Best rank
- #966in 1982
- Since 1958
- 2,781people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,655 girls have been named Cristen in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 153 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 153 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1980s alone account for 40%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 126 boys have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1982, its biggest year
Cristen was the 966th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Cristen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kristenpeak 1982
- Kristonpeak 1980
- Christenpeak 1982
- Tiffaniepeak 1980
- Kristalpeak 1982
- Stefaniepeak 1983
- Kristanpeak 1985
- Tabethapeak 1984
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.