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Khristian vs Khristine

American parents have registered 3,360 Khristians since 1880, against 618 Khristines. Khristian is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khristian against Khristine, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khristian Khristine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 73 years in which either name was published, Khristian for 45 years and Khristine for 28 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Khristian Khristine
Total US births 3,360618
Most in one year 14631
Babies in 2025 50under 5
Estimated living today 3,300570
Median age today 1750
Peak year 20131970
Best rank 1,315th boys2,395th girls
Rank in 2025 2,833rdunranked
First recorded 19681949
Girls / boys 559 / 2,801618 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Khristines alive today are over 50; half the Khristians are over 17. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Khristian and Khristine.