girls:
484 births since 1985
#5232 (8th percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1983
#3077 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1983
#5704 (26th percentile)
The name Krystian is the #5,704 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,078 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 26.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,077 (32.9% percentile) for all time with 1,594 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #5,232 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 484 births since 1985.
Krystian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for boys and 1985 for girls). Birth data for Krystian is available in 40 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (40 years for boys and 32 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 Krystian has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Krystian were boys.
For boys, Krystian reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #820) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 41 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Krystian ranks #887 for boys (2.6% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 39.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Krystian reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #841) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% 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 "Krystian".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Krystian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.2% confident that Krystian is pronounced as KRIHS-chuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KRIH-stee-uhn, at 23.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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