How popular is “Kristen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kristen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kristen” 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 “Kristen” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kristen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kristen” 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
1938	7	0.000003164	7		100%
1939	13	0.0000059	13		100%
1940	7	0.00000304	7		100%
1941	17	0.000006977	17		100%
1942	20	0.000007321	20		100%
1943	51	0.000018069	51		100%
1944	48	0.000017843	48		100%
1945	54	0.000020355	54		100%
1946	93	0.000029105	93		100%
1947	160	0.000044416	153	7	91%
1948	167	0.00004837	162	5	94%
1949	179	0.000051366	171	8	91%
1950	165	0.000047098	158	7	92%
1951	203	0.000055107	193	10	90%
1952	296	0.000077936	280	16	89%
1953	263	0.000068247	256	7	95%
1954	228	0.000057276	217	11	90%
1955	242	0.000060273	230	12	90%
1956	258	0.000062575	249	9	93%
1957	303	0.000072106	296	7	95%
1958	401	0.000097003	390	11	95%
1959	554	0.000133237	542	12	96%
1960	560	0.000134816	542	18	94%
1961	556	0.000134225	540	16	94%
1962	771	0.00019106	755	16	96%
1963	1033	0.000260977	1015	18	97%
1964	1353	0.000348029	1334	19	97%
1965	1743	0.000480768	1726	17	98%
1966	2353	0.000676995	2323	30	97%
1967	2778	0.000818287	2751	27	98%
1968	3268	0.000967318	3243	25	98%
1969	3855	0.001109249	3812	43	98%
1970	4647	0.001288502	4600	47	98%
1971	4018	0.001170625	3967	51	97%
1972	3584	0.001140314	3528	56	97%
1973	4995	0.00165568	4936	59	98%
1974	6121	0.002013488	6053	68	98%
1975	4745	0.001571507	4674	71	97%
1976	3713	0.001223676	3653	60	97%
1977	3930	0.001237213	3861	69	96%
1978	4424	0.001393882	4368	56	97%
1979	4629	0.001391344	4569	60	97%
1980	7381	0.002142833	7315	66	98%
1981	8593	0.002483975	8541	52	99%
1982	9595	0.002735206	9533	62	99%
1983	8676	0.002505097	8618	58	99%
1984	8446	0.002420921	8385	61	99%
1985	8514	0.002385469	8445	69	98%
1986	7907	0.002222892	7844	63	98%
1987	7413	0.00205596	7360	53	99%
1988	8436	0.002283059	8382	54	99%
1989	8870	0.002307224	8803	67	98%
1990	8128	0.002056431	8073	55	99%
1991	6856	0.001760086	6816	40	99%
1992	6291	0.001637738	6253	38	99%
1993	5559	0.001474427	5533	26	99%
1994	5908	0.001589175	5871	37	99%
1995	5437	0.001484645	5398	39	99%
1996	4884	0.001339111	4851	33	99%
1997	4112	0.00113411	4085	27	99%
1998	3373	0.000917023	3348	25	99%
1999	2864	0.000775339	2846	18	99%
2000	2365	0.000625677	2356	9	99%
2001	2006	0.000535878	1991	15	99%
2002	1730	0.000462778	1716	14	98%
2003	1453	0.000382135	1437	16	98%
2004	1241	0.000324791	1220	21	97%
2005	997	0.000259308	984	13	97%
2006	889	0.000224711	876	13	97%
2007	780	0.000195113	768	12	97%
2008	657	0.000167147	644	13	96%
2009	578	0.000151302	566	12	96%
2010	521	0.000140973	508	13	95%
2011	438	0.000119744	430	8	96%
2012	442	0.000120852	429	13	94%
2013	394	0.000108074	389	5	97%
2014	350	0.000094432	340	10	94%
2015	320	0.000086465	310	10	94%
2016	266	0.000072505	253	13	90%
2017	234	0.000065433	221	13	89%
2018	197	0.000056031	190	7	93%
2019	184	0.000053012	174	10	89%
2020	147	0.000044004	137	10	86%
2021	143	0.000042208	134	9	87%
2022	127	0.000037539	119	8	87%
2023	151	0.000045603	142	9	88%
2024	189	0.000056782	181	8	92%

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