Kristen

girls:

218.5k births since 1938

#183 (97th percentile)

boys:

2.2k births since 1947

#2706 (41st percentile)

overall:

220.7k births since 1938

#359 (95th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kristen".

1938 2023 19382023

Key Statistics

Total Births
218,486
Peak Births
9,533
Peak Year
1982
First Recorded
1938
Peak Percentile
96.0%
Current Percentile
14.4%
Peak Rank
#33
Current Rank
#811
Female statistics
Total Births
2,167
Peak Births
71
Peak Year
1975
First Recorded
1947
Peak Percentile
10.0%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#583
Current Rank
#907
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kristen

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kristen. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Kristen is pronounced as KRIH-stuhn.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kristen. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kristen, please vote using the thumbs up button.

krih-STIHN (2 syllables)
4 names 588.9k births
K R IH0 S T IH1 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K R IH1 S T AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.