How rare is the name Crista?

4,000 people in the United States have the first name Crista, about 1 in 75,508. It ranks #4,598 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CRISTA

#4,598

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,000
About
1 in 75,508
This common or more
84.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,000 people named Crista, 75.4% reported their origin as White, 14.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Crista peaked in 1971, when 175 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19472019
Peak year
1971
Births that year
175
In 2019
9 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,246 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Crista by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,737. The largest share of babies named Crista, 38.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#10,47012
1950s#4,552156
1960s#2,857421
1970s#1,7371,242
1980s#2,0091,159
1990s#3,301728
2000s#6,239400
2010s#14,279128
Baby boom 1946–647.6%
Generation X 1965–8038.4%
Millennials 1981–9637.7%
Generation Z 1997–1214.8%
2013 and later1.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Crista is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Crista has been most common in California (2.7×), Texas (2.5×), and Florida (2×), and least common in Illinois (0.79×).

1,772 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Crista

#4,595 Jacki · 4,002#4,597 Hari · 4,001#4,599 Gurpreet · 3,999#4,600 Muhammed · 3,998

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Crista, most common first.

#1,934 Cristal · 14,499#2,868 Cristy · 8,027#5,519 Cristi · 3,090#8,522 Crysta · 1,700#10,418 Cristo · 1,283#15,698 Cristan · 729#15,863 Crist · 719#33,489 Cresta · 247

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