girls:
1.1k births since 1972
#4590 (20th percentile)
boys:
67.9k births since 1960
#402 (91st percentile)
overall:
69k births since 1960
#878 (89th percentile)
The name Cristian is the #878 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69,049 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 88.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #402 (91.2% percentile) for all time with 67,923 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #4,590 (19.7% percentile) for all time with 1,126 births since 1972.
Cristian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 1972 for girls). Birth data for Cristian is available in 60 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 42 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cristian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cristian reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 84.9% percentile (ranked #133) with 1,379 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 1,421 births per million (ranked 83.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cristian ranks #309 for boys (66.2% percentile) with 559 births per million, which is 39.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cristian reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 9.2% percentile (ranked #772) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 41 births per million (ranked 9.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cristian".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Cristian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.3% confident that Cristian is pronounced as KRIHS-chuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KRIH-stee-uhn, at 26.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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