Is Kristen a male or female name?
Kristen is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in Norway at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 99%
- Sample size
- 228,861
- Confidence
- high
Kristen by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 99% | 220,850 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 99% | 5,506 | statcan |
| France FR | female | 57% | 915 | insee |
| England and Wales GB | female | 84% | 794 | ons |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 604 | ssb |
| Switzerland CH | female | 89% | 94 | bfs |
| Ireland IE | female | 95% | 59 | cso |
| Poland PL | female | 84% | 37 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 2 | statat |
Attested in 15 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · DK · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · NO · PL · SE · US
Kristen over time
In the United States, 97.5% of the babies named Kristen in the 1940s were girls, against 94.2% in the 2020s. In France, 46.2% of the babies named Kristen in the 1980s were girls, against 77.1% in the 2010s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 98% | 796 | — | |
| 1950s | 96% | 2,914 | — | |
| 1960s | 99% | 18,270 | — | |
| 1970s | 99% | 44,813 | — | |
| 1980s | 99% | 83,833 | 46% | 130 |
| 1990s | 99% | 53,408 | 43% | 150 |
| 2000s | 99% | 12,695 | 55% | 290 |
| 2010s | 97% | 3,344 | 77% | 240 |
| 2020s | 94% | 757 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Kristen with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Kristen&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Kristen
Is Kristen a male or female name?
Kristen is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in Norway at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Kristen change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Kristen identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.