Kristen
Kristen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 181 births. Its best rank was 33rd, in 1982.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1810.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19829,533 births
- Best rank
- #33in 1982
- Since 1938
- 220,847people given the name
The story in the numbers
218,672 girls have been named Kristen in the United States since 1938, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 9,533 births — 0.56% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 181 births in 2024, against 9,533 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1980s alone account for 38%. It has spent 70 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 29 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,175 boys have also been given it, 0.98% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kristen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 20 | |
| 1940s | 776 | |
| 1950s | 2,811 | |
| 1960s | 18,041 | |
| 1970s | 44,209 | |
| 1980s | 83,226 | |
| 1990s | 53,074 | |
| 2000s | 12,558 | |
| 2010s | 3,244 | |
| 2020s | 713 |
In 1982, its biggest year
Kristen was the 33rd 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 Kristen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kristanpeak 1985
- Cristenpeak 1982
- Kristonpeak 1980
- Jeneepeak 1988
- Tabethapeak 1984
- Kristinapeak 1985
- Christenpeak 1982
- Tiffaniepeak 1980
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.