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Kresten

Boys' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christian

Kresten has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 1992, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Kresten, 1992

1 in 768,000

Kresten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kresten: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kresten means

Kresten belongs to the name family reached through Kresten → Christian → Chrīstiānus. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kresten is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christian and Chrīstiānus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kresten between 1992 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1992; its best national rank was #9,200 in 1992.

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 Kresten?

Kresten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,839,369 births
Among boys only
1 in 399,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,251 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kresten sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 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 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kresten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krestens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kresten was born before 1992 — so the typical Kresten is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Kresten 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 1992 (5)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,200
1992

Spellings of Kresten

Kresten is not the most common spelling — Preston is, with 74.0% against Kresten's <0.01%.

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.

Kresten by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,200
1992
Peak year
1992
5 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kresten

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

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Sibling names for Kresten

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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