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Kristijan

Boys' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Chrīstiānus

Kristijan has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2008, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Kristijan, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristijan: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Chrīstiānus

Latin

What Kristijan means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kristijan is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Latin.

Kristijan comes through Latin Chrīstiānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christian and Chrīstiānus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Kristijan is pronounced /krǐstijan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Kristijan between 2008 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2008; its best national rank was #11,503 in 2015.

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 Kristijan?

Kristijan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristijan 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristijan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristijans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristijan was born before 2011 — so the typical Kristijan is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
81.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
33
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 81.8% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Kristijan 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (6)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,503
2015

Spellings of Kristijan

Kristijan is not the most common spelling — Cristian is, with 66.3% against Kristijan's 0.03%.

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.

Kristijan around the world

Where Kristijan 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.

  • France
    2004–2011
    #5,423
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1995–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kristijan 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
#11,503
2015
Peak year
2008
6 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kristijan

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

KristjanKrishaanKristhianKristiferKristaferKrithinKrithvikKristoperKrisztianKriyanshKristianoKristienKrishaunKrischanKristobalKritinKrishnavKristophKridayKristainKrishangKrishnanKristapherKristyan

Sibling names for Kristijan

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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