How popular is “Krista” in the USA?

Number of people named “Krista” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Krista” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Krista” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Krista” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Krista” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Krista” by birth year

This chart shows how “Krista” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1937	6	0.000002816	6		100%
1943	6	0.000002126	6		100%
1944	5	0.000001859	5		100%
1945	8	0.000003016	8		100%
1946	28	0.000008763	28		100%
1947	39	0.000010826	39		100%
1948	36	0.000010427	36		100%
1949	65	0.000018653	65		100%
1950	111	0.000031684	111		100%
1951	129	0.000035019	129		100%
1952	154	0.000040548	154		100%
1953	172	0.000044633	172		100%
1954	216	0.000054262	216		100%
1955	241	0.000060024	241		100%
1956	241	0.000058452	241		100%
1957	238	0.000056638	238		100%
1958	238	0.000057573	238		100%
1959	302	0.000072631	302		100%
1960	314	0.000075593	314		100%
1961	344	0.000083046	344		100%
1962	447	0.00011077	447		100%
1963	527	0.000133141	527		100%
1964	613	0.000157681	613		100%
1965	752	0.000207423	752		100%
1966	846	0.000243407	846		100%
1967	863	0.000254205	863		100%
1968	1049	0.000310501	1049		100%
1969	1321	0.000380109	1321		100%
1970	2596	0.000719809	2589	7	99%
1971	2417	0.000704181	2412	5	100%
1972	2061	0.000655744	2049	12	99%
1973	1959	0.000649345	1954	5	99%
1974	1816	0.000597369	1808	8	99%
1975	1700	0.000563027	1695	5	99%
1976	1600	0.000527304	1593	7	99%
1977	1771	0.000557533	1763	8	99%
1978	1742	0.000548857	1733	9	99%
1979	2218	0.000666667	2213	5	100%
1980	2538	0.000736826	2531	7	99%
1981	1848	0.000534201	1848		100%
1982	1702	0.000485182	1695	7	99%
1983	2053	0.000592781	2043	10	99%
1984	2179	0.000624578	2170	9	99%
1985	2189	0.000613318	2183	6	99%
1986	3065	0.000861662	3054	11	99%
1987	2559	0.000709727	2550	9	99%
1988	2571	0.000695797	2566	5	100%
1989	2231	0.000580318	2224	7	99%
1990	2144	0.000542445	2144		100%
1991	1911	0.000490596	1911		100%
1992	2034	0.000529512	2028	6	99%
1993	1896	0.000502881	1896		100%
1994	1627	0.000437642	1627		100%
1995	1467	0.000400584	1467		100%
1996	1312	0.000359728	1312		100%
1997	1078	0.000297318	1078		100%
1998	944	0.000256647	944		100%
1999	806	0.0002182	806		100%
2000	695	0.000183867	695		100%
2001	621	0.000165892	621		100%
2002	595	0.000159164	595		100%
2003	680	0.000178838	680		100%
2004	528	0.000138187	528		100%
2005	482	0.000125363	482		100%
2006	408	0.00010313	408		100%
2007	355	0.000088801	355		100%
2008	312	0.000079376	312		100%
2009	255	0.000066751	255		100%
2010	222	0.000060069	222		100%
2011	186	0.00005085	186		100%
2012	180	0.000049216	180		100%
2013	143	0.000039225	143		100%
2014	119	0.000032107	119		100%
2015	127	0.000034316	127		100%
2016	97	0.00002644	97		100%
2017	89	0.000024887	89		100%
2018	76	0.000021616	76		100%
2019	65	0.000018727	65		100%
2020	62	0.00001856	62		100%
2021	49	0.000014463	49		100%
2022	53	0.000015666	53		100%
2023	49	0.000014798	49		100%
2024	30	0.000009013	30		100%

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