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Chrysta

Chrysta reached its high-water mark in 1993 at number 3,987, and has been recorded 574 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2015. About 560 Chrystas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Chrysta

By the numbers

Total US births
574
Estimated living today
560
Median age today
35
Peak year
1993
Best rank
3,987th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1946

How old the living Chrystas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 574 babies given the name since 1946, about 560 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Chrysta is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chrysta is most concentrated in California (9.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1993

The most popular girls’ names the year Chrysta peaked:

All the names of 1993

Chrysta elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Chrysta 15 4,717th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.