Kristan
Kristan is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 713th, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1985242 births
- Best rank
- #713in 1985
- Since 1945
- 6,190people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,545 girls have been named Kristan in the United States since 1945, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 242 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 242 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1980s alone account for 37%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 645 boys have also been given it, 10% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1985, its biggest year
Kristan was the 713th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Kristan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kristenpeak 1982
- Stephaniepeak 1990
- Kristonpeak 1980
- Jeneepeak 1988
- Kristinapeak 1985
- Cristenpeak 1982
- Tabethapeak 1984
- Lisamariepeak 1987
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.