girls:
16 births since 1981
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
36 births since 1965
#4550 (1st percentile)
overall:
52 births since 1965
#7687 (1st percentile)
The name Krister is the #7,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,550 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1965. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1981.
Krister first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for boys and 1981 for girls). Birth data for Krister is available in 10 out of the 36 years between 1965 and 2000 (7 years for boys and 3 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 Krister has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.2% of all recorded births). In 2000, 100.0% of babies named Krister were boys.
For boys, Krister reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
For girls, Krister reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #776) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Krister".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Krister is pronounced as KRIH-ster, which has 2 syllables.
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