girls:
5.5k births since 1945
#2242 (61st percentile)
boys:
645 births since 1952
#3942 (14th percentile)
overall:
6.2k births since 1945
#3449 (55th percentile)
The name Kristan is the #3,449 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,190 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 55.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,242 (60.8% percentile) for all time with 5,545 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #3,942 (14.0% percentile) for all time with 645 births since 1952.
Kristan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1952 for boys). Birth data for Kristan is available in 76 out of the 76 years between 1945 and 2020 (73 years for girls and 61 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 Kristan has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2020, 0.0% of babies named Kristan were girls.
For girls, Kristan reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 29.3% percentile (ranked #566) with 131 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 131 births per million (ranked 29.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
For boys, Kristan reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #667) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kristan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kristan is pronounced as KRIH-stuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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