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Kristan

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kristan has been given to 6,195 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 1985, with 242 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Kristan, 2019

1 in 694,000

Kristan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kristan over time

In 2025, Kristan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19452025

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.

Kristan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kristan means

Kristan is a given name.

The naming story behind Kristan

Wikidata records Kristan as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q93133676, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,545 girls were recorded with the name Kristan between 1945 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 242 in 1985; its best national rank was #713 in 1985.

In the United States, 650 boys were recorded with the name Kristan between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,977 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,383 in 2020 to #13,082 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,420 in 2015 to #13,082 in 2025.

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.

How common is Kristan?

Kristan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristan 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristans were born

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

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,481
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (2,078).

Is Kristan 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 1985 (242)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#713
1985

Spellings of Kristan

Kristan is not the most common spelling — Kristen is, with 20.3% against Kristan's 0.51%.

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 Kristan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kristan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 49,227 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Ohio1 in 33,333
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 33,333
  5. 5Alabama1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 50,000

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. Kristan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kristan around the world

Where Kristan 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,199
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1977–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kristan

People whose public names include Kristan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kristan 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
#713
1985
Peak year
1985
242 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5,545
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,082
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,699
Best rank ever
#1,977
1975
Peak year
1979
26 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
650
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kristan

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

KristynKristelKristalKristianKrishnaKrislynTristanKrishaKrissyKristieKristianaKrislynnKristleKrisKritikaKristonKristyKristaKrimsonKristiKristeenKristineKristinKrithi

Names with a curve like Kristan

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

StephaniVenessaTawnyFelishaTabethaMatthewCharissaDannielleKeshiaAndrewSamathaKandice

Sibling names for Kristan

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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