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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Kriston

Kriston was the 11427th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 6 babies. Its best year was 1976, when it ranked 2380th with 19 babies. More babies were named Kriston in the 1980s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#11,427 boys, up 1,787 places since 2020
Babies in 2025
6boys
Girls and boys
Almost always a boy’s name2021–2025
Peak year
197619 babies
Total since 1880
1,266babies recorded

Kriston popularity since 1880

012.52537.550 1900192019401960198020002020
GirlsBoys Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.
YearRank (girls)Rank (boys)Babies (girls)Babies (boys)
2025—#11,427—6
2020—#13,214—5
2010—#6,923—12
2000#7,820#7,157139
1990#3,675#6,164298
1980#2,463#2,6773918
1970#4,370#2,9891311
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How popular is Kriston, counting every spelling?

Kriston is the most common spelling of a name family that had 11 boys in 2025 across its spellings. Together these spellings went to 11 boys in 2025.

SpellingBabies 2025Official rankBabies 2021–2025

Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.

How many kids will share the name Kriston?

6 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Kriston (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Kriston born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 1,368 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Kriston.

Chance of another Kriston in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Kriston?

About 500 people born in the US named Kriston are alive today, with a median age of 34; half are between 21 and 48. That makes Kriston mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties.

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Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Names with a similar history

These names rose and fell in step with Kriston: their share of US boys followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Kriston, they share its era and feel.

Questions about the name Kriston

How popular is the name Kriston?

Kriston was the 11427th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 6 babies. Its best year was 1976, when it ranked 2380th with 19 babies. More babies were named Kriston in the 1980s than in any other decade.

Is Kriston a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, almost always a boy’s name given the name Kriston in the US.