first name
KRISTEN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 199,107 people named Kristen, 85.8% reported their origin as White, 5% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.9% as Black. 99.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kristen peaked in 1982, when 9,596 babies got the name.
At least 220,952 babies have been given the name since 1938. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kristen by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #88. The largest share of babies named Kristen, 54.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kristen is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kristen has been most common in Rhode Island (2.5×), New Hampshire (2.1×), and Massachusetts (1.8×), and least common in Iowa (0.66×).
217,147 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 Kristen
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kristen, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Kristen ranks #100,083 of 156,621, with 193 people. See Kristen as a last name
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