Christy
Christy was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,190 among girls’ names; 100,536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 91,800 Americans named Christy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 45 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Christy is “Alternative form of Christie, A diminutive of the female given name Christina and related names.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Christopher.”
/ˈkɹɪsti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christy?
#4,190 among girls’ names, 2025
Christy fell from #2,263 in 2015 to #4,190 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 46.5 to 21.2 per million.
5,192 babies in 1975, the peak
Christy peaked in 1975, when 5,192 babies were given it (5,168 girls, #53 among girls’ names). The 34 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,190 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,469 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,719 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,044 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,894 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,235 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,825 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,512 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,168 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,744 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | #2,263 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,217 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,220 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,920 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,662 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,680 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 121 | #1,786 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,487 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,546 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 189 | #1,270 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 223 | #1,069 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 228 | #1,023 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 243 | #960 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 285 | #815 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 301 | #786 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 362 | #667 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 335 | #677 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 392 | #614 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 403 | #575 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 543 | #462 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 574 | #449 | 0.33 |
| 1994 | 637 | #395 | 0.36 |
| 1993 | 608 | #409 | 0.34 |
| 1992 | 720 | #357 | 0.39 |
| 1991 | 798 | #332 | 0.43 |
| 1990 | 974 | #286 | 0.51 |
| 1989 | 1,093 | #245 | 0.59 |
| 1988 | 1,129 | #233 | 0.63 |
| 1987 | 1,293 | #207 | 0.74 |
| 1986 | 1,555 | #174 | 0.91 |
| 1985 | 1,941 | #151 | 1.1 |
| 1984 | 2,028 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 1983 | 1,974 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 2,598 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 1981 | 2,943 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 1980 | 3,673 | #83 | 2.2 |
| 1979 | 4,286 | #72 | 2.7 |
| 1978 | 4,661 | #59 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 4,602 | #59 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 4,853 | #60 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5,168 | #53 | 3.5 |
| 1974 | 5,067 | #57 | 3.5 |
| 1973 | 4,121 | #73 | 2.8 |
| 1972 | 4,190 | #74 | 2.8 |
| 1971 | 3,930 | #89 | 2.4 |
| 1970 | 3,714 | #105 | 2.1 |
| 1969 | 3,052 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1968 | 2,139 | #151 | 1.3 |
| 1967 | 1,314 | #223 | 0.80 |
| 1966 | 1,136 | #251 | 0.67 |
| 1965 | 1,128 | #254 | 0.64 |
| 1964 | 1,374 | #235 | 0.73 |
| 1963 | 1,209 | #254 | 0.63 |
| 1962 | 1,068 | #275 | 0.54 |
| 1961 | 1,163 | #263 | 0.58 |
| 1960 | 1,164 | #262 | 0.58 |
| 1959 | 1,023 | #277 | 0.51 |
| 1958 | 1,116 | #261 | 0.55 |
| 1957 | 957 | #293 | 0.47 |
| 1956 | 859 | #303 | 0.43 |
| 1955 | 835 | #303 | 0.43 |
| 1954 | 659 | #329 | 0.34 |
| 1953 | 619 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1952 | 747 | #296 | 0.40 |
| 1951 | 565 | #333 | 0.31 |
| 1950 | 478 | #361 | 0.28 |
| 1949 | 421 | #383 | 0.25 |
| 1948 | 270 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1947 | 276 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 181 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 82 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 69 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 79 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 93 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,376 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,502 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,872 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,771 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,157 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,628 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,822 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,095 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,710 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,412 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,482 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,564 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,786 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,005 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,003 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,169 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 100,536 Americans recorded as Christy, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 34 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Christy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christy, and how old are they?
91,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 100,536 Americans ever recorded as Christy. The median Christy alive today is 50 years old; half are between 45 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 91,660 people named Christy (90,811 women and girls, 849 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93,877 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 | 298 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 53,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 798 |
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 Christy born?
The states with the most babies named Christy are California, Texas and Tennessee, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,664 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 8,407 | #3,007 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 5,056 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 5,008 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 4,861 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 4,404 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 3,640 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 3,527 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 3,367 | #1,738 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,225 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Christy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christy is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 Christy 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 203,139 babies since 1880, Christy is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 65 babies (52%), again the most given.
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 Christy
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 Christy and names like it
- Compare Christy and ChristieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChristy peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christy since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Christy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.