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Krysten

Girls' name

Variant of Kristin

Krysten has been given to 4,038 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1988, with 255 recorded.

Babies named Krysten, 2024

1 in 478,000

Krysten over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krysten: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kristin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krysten means

Krysten is a variant of Kristin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Krysten is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɪs.tɪn/ for Krysten.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Krysten → Kristin → Christina. The family’s meaning is “Christian (woman)”, recorded in English with the source elements Chrīstiāna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kristin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,038 girls were recorded with the name Krysten between 1960 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 255 in 1988; its best national rank was #738 in 1988.

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 Krysten?

Krysten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krysten 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krysten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krystens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krysten was born before 1991 — so the typical Krysten is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,038
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (1,570).

Is Krysten 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (255)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#738
1988

Spellings of Krysten

Krysten is not the most common spelling — Kristen is, with 36.7% against Krysten's 0.68%.

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.

Where Krysten is used

Across 1910–2025, Krysten was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 64,781 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Krysten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Krysten around the world

Where Krysten 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
    2001–2001
    #3,262
    in 2001
  • France
    1992–2021
    #6,366
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1965–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Krysten

People whose public names include Krysten, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Krysten 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
#738
1988
Peak year
1988
255 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,038
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krysten

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

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Names with a curve like Krysten

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Krysten, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Krysten

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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