girls:
73.6k births since 1937
#455 (92nd percentile)
boys:
148 births since 1970
#4438 (3rd percentile)
overall:
73.8k births since 1937
#843 (89th percentile)
The name Krista is the #843 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 73,795 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 89.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #455 (92.1% percentile) for all time with 73,647 births since 1937. For boys, it ranks #4,438 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 148 births since 1970.
Krista first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Krista is available in 82 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023 (82 years for girls and 20 years for boys). 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 Krista has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Krista reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 89.1% percentile (ranked #90) with 1,655 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 1,655 births per million (ranked 89.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Krista ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Krista reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #654) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Krista".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Krista is pronounced as KRIH-stuh, which has 2 syllables.
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