Kristen

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kristen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Danish form of }Christian.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 63◐
  • FIFinland1 in 74
  • PLPoland1 in 100

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.1M ●

across 15 countries

#31 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
567 ●

25M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 63 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

ChristineLatin · English●7.1M records
КристинаCyrillic · Russian●3.7M records
ᲥრისტინეGeorgian · Georgian●11K records
ΧριστιναGreek · Greek●9K records
קריסטינהHebrew · Hebrew●6.3K records
คริสติน่าThai · Thai●241 records
크리스티나Hangul · Korean●20 records
ՔրիստինաArmenian · Armenian●13 records

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cristina in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 8 more, Christine in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 2 more, Кристина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and Christina in NL Netherlands, DK Denmark, AT Austria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Danish form of }Christian. Kristene ° Fanciful respelling of }Christine. Kristie ° Variant of the girl’s name Christie, under the influence of the Scottish form bKirstie.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kristen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#603,644,0251.6M rec.—#42Кристина186
AR Argentina#622,409,5761.5M rec.—254Cristina145
GB United Kingdom#201,031,484928K rec.—6Christine261
MX Mexico#74750,840583K rec.—1.6KCristina228
UA Ukraine#76732,569742K rec.—listedХристина82
DE Germany#17720,532656K rec.—1Christine269
PH Philippines#10571,283433K rec.—36KCristina184
AU Australia#25552,456418K rec.—107Christine282
US United States#17482,03815M rec.1 in 690482KChristine567
CA Canada#14399,081364K rec.—6Christine243
PL Poland#24383,140△34K rec.1 in 100383KKrystyna159
FR France—280,650△2.7K rec.1 in 242281KKrystyna117

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.9M81%
  • 147K6%
  • Spanish60K2%
  • Vietnamese43K2%
  • Norwegian21K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,944,64981%
147,2986%
Spanish59,5142%
Vietnamese43,2932%
Norwegian20,7631%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kristen is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name16K records spelled Kristen5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Kristěn, Kristën, Kristén

  • Polish given name9.6K records spelled Kristen24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Christen, Кристен, Krysten, Крістен, Крыстэн

  • a separate given name8.9K records spelled Kristen2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written KrïSten

  • Estonian given name4.0K records spelled Kristen4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Estonia, Canada

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Kristén, Krïstên

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Kristen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Scandinavian: 'a follower of Christ'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Swedish, Christian (of or relating to Christianity)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, a male given name, variant of Kristjan

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, chrétien

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K194019601980200020209.5K · 1982

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Kristen in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1938–2025
Yearrecords
19387
193913
19407
194117
194220
194351
194448
194554
194693
1947153
1948162
1949171
1950158
1951193
1952280
1953256
1954217
1955230
1956249
1957296
1958390
1959542
1960541
1961540
1962755
19631,015
19641,333
19651,726
19662,323
19672,751
19683,243
19693,812
19704,600
19713,967
19723,527
19734,936
19746,052
19754,674
19763,653
19773,861
19784,368
19794,568
19807,316
19818,540
19829,534
19838,618
19848,385
19858,445
19867,844
19877,361
19888,382
19898,803
19908,073
19916,816
19926,253
19935,534
19945,871
19955,398
19964,851
19974,085
19983,348
19992,846
20002,356
20011,991
20021,716
20031,437
20041,220
2005984
2006876
2007768
2008644
2009566
2010508
2011430
2012429
2013389
2014340
2015310
2016253
2017221
2018190
2019174
2020137
2021134
2022119
2023143
2024181
202596

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 88 years between 1938–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Sally Ride, b. 1951Kris Jenner, b. 1955Kristen Johnston, b. 1967Kristen Anderson-Lopez, b. 1972Kristen Wiig, b. 1973Kristen Michal, b. 1975January Jones, b. 1978Kristen Bell, b. 1980Kristen Stewart, b. 1990Kylie Jenner, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 74 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Kristen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020198K#278
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.1K#1,028
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#278
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025622—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—470#515
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—323#374
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000219#80,502
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010216#86,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020193#100,083
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—182#9,299
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022140—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—124#4,755

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 841 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kristen?
We estimate roughly 2.1 million people bear Kristen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Kristen have the most bearers?
Kristen is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled кристина.
Where is Kristen most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kristen is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 63 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Kristen compared with other names?
In Russia, Kristen is the 60th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Kristen a male or female name?
Kristen is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Kristen mean?
Recorded meaning: Danish form of }Christian.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kristen” — the 60th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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