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Kristjan

Boys' name

Form of Christian

Kristjan has been given to 225 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1998, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Kristjan, 2020

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristjan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christian

Ancient Greek

What Kristjan means

Kristjan is a form of Christian.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kristjan is used in Estonian and Slovene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Kristjan is a form of Christian. Christian has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Kristjan is used in Albanian, Estonian and Faroese. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 225 boys were recorded with the name Kristjan between 1982 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1998; its best national rank was #4,777 in 1998.

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 Kristjan?

Kristjan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristjan 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristjan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristjans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristjan was born before 2001 — so the typical Kristjan is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
225
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (93).

Is Kristjan 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 1998 (14)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,777
1998

Spellings of Kristjan

Kristjan is not the most common spelling — Tristan is, with 53.4% against Kristjan's 0.10%.

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.

Kristjan around the world

Where Kristjan 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.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2003
    #2,857
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1985–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kristjan 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
#4,777
1998
Peak year
1998
14 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
225
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kristjan

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

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Sibling names for Kristjan

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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