Chrissy
Chrissy was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,568 among girls’ names; 4,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,240 Americans named Chrissy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 37 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chrissy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chrissy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chrissy is “a diminutive of the female given names Christine and Christina.”
/ˈkɹɪsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chrissy?
#7,568 among girls’ names, 2025
Chrissy fell from #4,007 in 2015 to #7,568 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.7 to 8.7 per million.
560 babies in 1978, the peak
Chrissy peaked in 1978, when 560 girls were given it, #378 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,568 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,317 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,005 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,049 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,116 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,514 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,795 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,168 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,082 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,104 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,007 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,499 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,017 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,327 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,618 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,227 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,360 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,317 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,940 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,960 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,848 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,729 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,625 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,296 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,467 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,987 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,817 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,407 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,640 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,958 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,791 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,308 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,055 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,926 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,319 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,293 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,129 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,860 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,624 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,526 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 110 | #1,193 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 117 | #1,139 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 130 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 212 | #769 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 335 | #554 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 454 | #451 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 560 | #378 | 0.37 |
| 1977 | 119 | #1,089 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,603 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 71 | #1,448 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,600 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,887 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,459 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,253 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 90 | #1,241 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 67 | #1,424 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 76 | #1,258 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 58 | #1,463 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,466 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,597 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,599 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 34 | #1,996 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,077 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,834 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chrissy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chrissy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chrissy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chrissy, and how old are they?
4,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,459 Americans ever recorded as Chrissy. The median Chrissy alive today is 46 years old; half are between 37 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 6,361 people named Chrissy (6,329 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 220 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 389 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 373 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chrissy born?
The states with the most babies named Chrissy are California, Texas and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 315 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 270 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 178 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 117 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 105 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 99 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 92 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 91 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 90 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Chrissy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chrissy is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1947 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chrissy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,065 babies since 1880, Chrissy is the most given (49% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chrissy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chrissy and names like it
- Compare Chrissy and KrissyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChrissy peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chrissy since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Chrissy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Chrissy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.