Christi
Christi was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 20,932 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,200 Americans named Christi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 46 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Christi is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,430, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
940 babies in 1974, the peak
Christi peaked in 1974, when 940 girls were given it, #273 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,430 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,799 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,519 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,851 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,710 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,176 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,999 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,066 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,042 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,143 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,427 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,471 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,276 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,356 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,150 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,137 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,125 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,267 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,322 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,839 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,455 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,902 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,559 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,207 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,942 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,024 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,625 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,917 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,918 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,455 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,520 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 147 | #1,187 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 142 | #1,211 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 173 | #1,035 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 213 | #864 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 230 | #803 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 248 | #729 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 320 | #603 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 357 | #553 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 388 | #506 | 0.23 |
| 1983 | 409 | #483 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 454 | #464 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 498 | #428 | 0.30 |
| 1980 | 602 | #382 | 0.36 |
| 1979 | 692 | #340 | 0.43 |
| 1978 | 705 | #326 | 0.46 |
| 1977 | 794 | #299 | 0.52 |
| 1976 | 775 | #293 | 0.53 |
| 1975 | 899 | #266 | 0.62 |
| 1974 | 940 | #273 | 0.64 |
| 1973 | 909 | #273 | 0.62 |
| 1972 | 917 | #280 | 0.60 |
| 1971 | 908 | #303 | 0.55 |
| 1970 | 878 | #314 | 0.50 |
| 1969 | 816 | #313 | 0.48 |
| 1968 | 739 | #320 | 0.45 |
| 1967 | 590 | #374 | 0.36 |
| 1966 | 468 | #435 | 0.28 |
| 1965 | 379 | #485 | 0.21 |
| 1964 | 499 | #439 | 0.26 |
| 1963 | 449 | #459 | 0.23 |
| 1962 | 414 | #476 | 0.21 |
| 1961 | 359 | #516 | 0.18 |
| 1960 | 409 | #485 | 0.20 |
| 1959 | 361 | #514 | 0.18 |
| 1958 | 373 | #496 | 0.19 |
| 1957 | 304 | #549 | 0.15 |
| 1956 | 259 | #584 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 201 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 134 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 127 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 141 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 98 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 73 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 61 | #1,165 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 54 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,546 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,244 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,220 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,510 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,936 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christi has been given almost only to girls: 22 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Christi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christi, and how old are they?
19,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 20,932 Americans ever recorded as Christi. The median Christi alive today is 53 years old; half are between 46 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 19,328 people named Christi (19,261 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,635 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,610 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 426 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 98 |
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 Christi born?
The states with the most babies named Christi are Texas, California and Ohio, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 3,720 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 1,854 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 865 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 730 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Illinois | 685 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 668 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 608 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 600 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 591 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 565 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Christi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christi is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1940 it was given 2.6 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 Christi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Christi?
Christi is a less common spelling of Christy: SSA has recorded 20,932 Christi and 100,536 Christy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 203,305 babies since 1880, Christi is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 none of their 65 babies recorded by SSA was a Christi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Christi
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 Christi and names like it
- Compare Christi and ChristyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChristi peaked in 1974.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christi since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Christi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.