Kristjana

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kristjana has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1979, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Kristjana, 1979

1 in 554,000

Kristjana over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristjana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kristjana means

Kristjana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kristjana is used in Icelandic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Kristjana is pronounced [ˈkʰrɪstjana].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Kristjana between 1979 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1979; its best national rank was #9,557 in 1979.

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.

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How common is Kristjana?

Kristjana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979: 1 in 554,000; 6 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only: 1 in 268,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 384,320 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kristjana 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 1979 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 384,320 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristjana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristjanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristjana was born before 1979 — so the typical Kristjana is around 46 today.

Median birth year: 1979; About 46 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Kristjana 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: —; 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 1979 (6)
Years since peak: 46; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,557; 1979

Spellings of Kristjana

Kristjana is not the most common spelling — Kristina is, with 87.9% against Kristjana's <0.01%.

Kristina87.9%136,765
Kristian4.4%6,820
Kristan3.6%5,545
Kristiana1.8%2,796
Kristianna0.76%1,178
Cristiana0.59%922
Kristena0.48%752
Kristyna0.46%722

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.

Kristjana 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: #9,557; 1979
Peak year: 1979; 6 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 1979
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kristjana

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

Sibling names for Kristjana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Bambi Shanika Mellissa Latosha Adria Lani Malissa Lindy

For a brother

Delvin Leopoldo Jerod Cedrick Reggie Torrey Jed Wilfredo

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