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Cristen

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Variant of Kristin

Cristen has been given to 2,781 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 153 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Cristen, 2024

1 in 669,000

Cristen over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Cristen over time

In 2024, Cristen went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19582024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Cristen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kristin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cristen means

Cristen is a variant of Kristin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cristen is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɪs.tɪn/ for Cristen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Cristen → Kristin → Christina. The family’s meaning is “Christian (woman)”, recorded in English with the source elements Chrīstiāna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kristin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,655 girls were recorded with the name Cristen between 1958 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 153 in 1982; its best national rank was #966 in 1982.

In the United States, 126 boys were recorded with the name Cristen between 1969 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,924 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cristen?

Cristen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cristen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cristen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cristens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cristen was born before 1984 — so the typical Cristen is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
40.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,655
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1980s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (1,067).

Is Cristen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (153)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#966
1982

Spellings of Cristen

Cristen is not the most common spelling — Kristen is, with 37.7% against Cristen's 0.46%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cristen is used

Across 1910–2025, Cristen was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 127,027 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cristen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cristen around the world

Where Cristen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cristen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#966
1982
Peak year
1982
153 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,655
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,924
1970
Peak year
1970
11 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cristen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CrimsonCristiCristelCricketCristieTristenCristinCristalCristyCrissyCristelaPaytenCristineCristaCriseldaCristianaAustenKyrstenCristianKrystenCrissieCrimsynChristenCristyn

Names with a curve like Cristen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cristen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NatashiaShavonneAlishiaMegganSharitaAleshiaTalishaNakitaTabethaTaishaShantelleJenee

Sibling names for Cristen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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