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Krysia

Girls' name

Short form of Krystyna

Krysia has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1989, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Krysia, 1989

1 in 384,000

Krysia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krysia: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Krystyna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krysia means

Krysia is a short form of Krystyna.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Krysia is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkrɨ.ɕa/ for Krysia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Krystyna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Krysia is pronounced /ˈkrɘ.ɕa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 girls were recorded with the name Krysia between 1958 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1989; its best national rank was #5,765 in 1958.

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 Krysia?

Krysia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 384,000
10 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 184,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
266,327 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krysia 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 1989 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 266,327 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krysia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krysias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krysia was born before 1978 — so the typical Krysia is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
75
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Choose a decade

1970s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Krysia 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 1989 (10)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,765
1958

Spellings of Krysia

Krysia is not the most common spelling — Krystal is, with 36.2% against Krysia's 0.04%.

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.

Krysia around the world

Where Krysia 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.

  • Scotland
    1974–1974
    #508
    in 1974
  • South Australia
    1959–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Krysia 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
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Best rank ever
#5,765
1958
Peak year
1989
10 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krysia

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

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Sibling names for Krysia

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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