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Krysta vs Krystine

American parents have registered 6,566 Krystas since 1880, against 928 Krystines. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Krysta against Krystine, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Krysta Krystine

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 68 years in which either name was published, Krysta for 58 years and Krystine for 10 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Krysta Krystine
Total US births 6,566928
Most in one year 41970
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6,400890
Median age today 3336
Peak year 19931988
Best rank 568th girls1,788th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19611949
Girls / boys 6,566 / 0928 / 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 Krystines alive today are over 36; half the Krystas are over 33. That is 3 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: Krysta and Krystine.