Krista
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant spelling of Christa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹɪstə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krista is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Krista itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 528 (measured from records)
- 1 in 849 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named Christa, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Christa in DE Germany, AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant spelling of Christa. Kristeen @° Fanciful respelling of Christine. Variants: Kristene, Kristine.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Krista, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krista counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #150 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 621 | — | Christa | 189 |
| US United States | #450 | 66,762 | 1 in 5K | 67K | Krista | 528 |
| CA Canada | #321 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 2 | Krista | 238 |
| GB United Kingdom | #601 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 3 | Krista | 162 |
| AT Austria | #170 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 435 | Christa | 98 |
| FI Finland | — | 6,566 | 1 in 849 | 6.9K | Krista | 66 |
| LV Latvia | #717 | 1,947 | 1 in 966 | 1.9K | Krista | 49 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1.8K | Krista | 35 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Krista is also recorded in 4 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 German, weibl. Vom., (vorwiegend skandinavi sche) Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latvian, Ječupe, Bārtas pieteka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Krista Tippettb. 1960USAmerican broadcaster
- Krista Bridgesb. 1968CACanadian actress
- Krista Suttonb. 1970CACanadian actress
- Krista Allenb. 1971USAmerican actress
- Krista Vernoffb. 1972USAmerican television producer, television and film writer, and author
- Krista Kiurub. 1974FIFinnish politician (born 1974)
- Krista Ayneb. 1982USAmerican model and Penthouse Pet
- Krista Kosonenb. 1983FIFinnish actress
- Krista Siegfridsb. 1985FIFinnish singer
- Krista Lähteenmäkib. 1990FIFinnish cross-country skier
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 67K | #754 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 6.9K | #278 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6.6K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.9K | #266 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 1.8K | #92 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.8K | #81 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #754 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 41 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 33 | #1,838 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 6 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Krista come from?
- Variant spelling of Christa. Kristeen @° Fanciful respelling of Christine. Variants: Kristene, Kristine. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Krista?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɪstə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Krista mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Christa.
- Is Krista a male or female name?
- Krista 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 are other forms of the name Krista?
- In the etymology graph, Christine, Chris and Cristina are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kristina.
- In which country does Krista have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Christa in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Krista most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krista is densest in Finland — about 1 in 849 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Krista?
- In the United States, the national register counted 66,762 people named Krista in 2020, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Krista compared with other names?
- In Germany, Krista is the 150th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Krista?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Krista” — the 150th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.