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Krystin

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Ancient Greek origin

Krystin has been given to 3,131 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 207 recorded.

Babies named Krystin, 2020

1 in 477,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krystin: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Ancient Greek origin

Ancient Greek

What Krystin means

Krystin is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Krystin is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,131 girls were recorded with the name Krystin between 1965 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 207 in 1989; its best national rank was #886 in 1989.

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 Krystin?

Krystin 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 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krystin 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 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krystin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krystins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krystin was born before 1990 — so the typical Krystin is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,131
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (1,308).

Is Krystin 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 1989 (207)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#886
1989

Spellings of Krystin

Krystin is not the most common spelling — Kristen is, with 24.6% against Krystin's 0.35%.

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 Krystin is used

Across 1910–2025, Krystin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 88,040 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 100,000

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. Krystin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Krystin around the world

Where Krystin 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1997
    #2,176
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1958–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Krystin

People whose public names include Krystin, 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.

Krystin 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
#886
1989
Peak year
1989
207 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
3,131
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krystin

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

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Names with a curve like Krystin

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

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Sibling names for Krystin

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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