Kristin
Kristin is a girl's name that peaked in 1981, when it was the 31st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,661st. About 171,000 Kristins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kristin boys named Kristin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 180,951
- Estimated living today
- 171,000
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 31st
- Rank in 2025
- 4,661st
- First recorded
- 1932
- Girls / boys
- 179,313 / 1,638
How old the living Kristins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 180,951 babies given the name since 1932, about 171,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 5,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 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 the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Borrowed in the 20th century from a variant of Christina.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kristins
- Kristin Scott Thomas (born 1960)British-French actress
- Kristin Kreuk (born 1982)Canadian actress
- Kristin Davis (born 1965)American actress
- Kristin Chenoweth (born 1968)American actress, singer, author
- Kristin Otto (born 1966)East German swimmer
- Kristin Hannah (born 1960)American writer
- Kristin Armstrong (born 1973)American cyclist
- Kristin Cavallari (born 1987)American actress
People named Kristin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kristin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kristin is most concentrated in Wisconsin (1.8×), Delaware (1.8×), Minnesota (1.7×), Massachusetts (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular girls’ names the year Kristin peaked:
Kristin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Kristin | 17,638 | 7th |
| England and Wales girls | Kristin | 195 | 1,122nd |
| Scotland girls | Kristin | 153 | 268th |
| Ireland girls | Kristin | 21 | 423rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kristin | 15 | 339th |
| England and Wales boys | Kristin | 9 | 3,036th |
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.
Kristin: rank by region
In 2015, Kristin was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Kristin | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kristin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Kristin | 73 | 395 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Kristin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.