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Krystyna

Girls' name

Form of Christina

Krystyna has been given to 1,654 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1990, with 91 recorded.

Babies named Krystyna, 2020

1 in 477,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krystyna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krystyna means

Krystyna is a form of Christina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Krystyna is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /krɨ.ˈstɨ.na/ for Krystyna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Krystyna comes through Latin Christina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Krystyna is pronounced /krɘsˈtɘ.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,654 girls were recorded with the name Krystyna between 1952 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 91 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,558 in 1987.

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 Krystyna?

Krystyna 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 Krystyna 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 Krystyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krystynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krystyna was born before 1989 — so the typical Krystyna is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,654
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (519).

Is Krystyna 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 1990 (91)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,558
1987

Spellings of Krystyna

Krystyna is not the most common spelling — Kristina is, with 80.7% against Krystyna's 0.98%.

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 Krystyna is used

Across 1910–2025, Krystyna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 191,515 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

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

Krystyna around the world

Where Krystyna 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
    1996–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1927–1993
    #4,056
    in 1993
  • Norway
    1880–1981
    #609
    in 1981
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #1,936
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1946–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Krystyna 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
#1,558
1987
Peak year
1990
91 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
1,654
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krystyna

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

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Sibling names for Krystyna

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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