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Krister

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A Christian person, a Christian, through Christer

Krister has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 2000, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 69% boys, 31% girls all-time.

Babies named Krister, 2000

1 in 630,000

Krister over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2000, Krister went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19652000

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.

Krister: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krister means

Krister belongs to the name family reached through Krister → Christer → Christian → Kristian → Christianus. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Krister is used in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christer, Christian, Kristian and Christianus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Krister between 1965 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,214 in 1965.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Krister between 1981 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1981; its best national rank was #9,716 in 1981.

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 Krister?

Krister had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 630,000
6 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only
1 in 327,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
436,510 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krister 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 2000 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 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krister. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krister was born before 1980 — so the typical Krister is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
36
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Krister 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 2000 (6)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,214
1965

Spellings of Krister

Krister is not the most common spelling — Tristen is, with 49.2% against Krister's 0.08%.

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.

Krister around the world

Where Krister 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2019
    #488
    in 2019

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Krister 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
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Best rank ever
#4,214
1965
Peak year
2000
6 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,716
1981
Peak year
1981
6 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krister

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

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Sibling names for Krister

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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