Kristin
Kristin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. Its best rank was 31st, in 1981.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 310.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19819,737 births
- Best rank
- #31in 1981
- Since 1932
- 180,924people given the name
The story in the numbers
179,286 girls have been named Kristin in the United States since 1932, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 9,737 births — 0.58% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 31 births in 2024, against 9,737 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1980s alone account for 39%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 26 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,638 boys have also been given it, 0.91% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kristin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 171 | |
| 1940s | 1,685 | |
| 1950s | 4,837 | |
| 1960s | 24,352 | |
| 1970s | 42,385 | |
| 1980s | 70,558 | |
| 1990s | 27,822 | |
| 2000s | 6,099 | |
| 2010s | 1,184 | |
| 2020s | 193 |
In 1981, its biggest year
Kristin was the 31st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1981 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1981.
Names that rose and fell with Kristin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Stefaniepeak 1983
- Cristinpeak 1981
- Tabathapeak 1983
- Stephainepeak 1983
- Cristenpeak 1982
- Kristanpeak 1985
- Tabethapeak 1984
- Moniquepeak 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.