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Krystie vs Krystina

American parents have registered 4,819 Krystinas since 1880, against 521 Krysties. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Krystie against Krystina, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Krystie Krystina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Krystina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1973, when Krystie had 7 and Krystina had 7.

Side by side

  Krystie Krystina
Total US births 5214,819
Most in one year 40480
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5104,700
Median age today 3835
Peak year 19871987
Best rank 2,531st girls459th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19631949
Girls / boys 521 / 04,819 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Krysties alive today are over 38; half the Krystinas are over 35. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Krystie Krystina
France 75105

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Krystie and Krystina.