Cristy
Cristy was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,212 among girls’ names; 8,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,730 Americans named Cristy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 41 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cristy?
#7,212 among girls’ names, 2025
Cristy fell from #6,075 in 2015 to #7,212 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 9.3 per million.
402 babies in 1978, the peak
Cristy peaked in 1978, when 402 girls were given it, #484 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,212 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,048 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,792 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,777 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,129 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,907 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,826 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,634 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,172 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,476 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,075 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,584 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,471 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,664 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,290 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,277 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,364 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,040 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,983 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,375 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,965 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,011 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,542 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,666 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,013 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,409 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,519 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,180 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,726 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,881 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,432 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,217 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,798 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 92 | #1,628 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,490 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,550 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 122 | #1,225 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 138 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 177 | #910 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 225 | #758 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 237 | #702 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 276 | #625 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 244 | #711 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 330 | #562 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 288 | #633 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 370 | #520 | 0.23 |
| 1978 | 402 | #484 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 318 | #553 | 0.21 |
| 1976 | 329 | #532 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 321 | #539 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 322 | #523 | 0.22 |
| 1973 | 286 | #571 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 273 | #586 | 0.18 |
| 1971 | 270 | #623 | 0.16 |
| 1970 | 238 | #670 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 180 | #753 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 141 | #861 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 113 | #960 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 87 | #1,135 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 101 | #1,044 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 108 | #1,042 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 99 | #1,089 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 87 | #1,178 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 92 | #1,145 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 98 | #1,087 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 86 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 77 | #1,213 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 69 | #1,262 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 66 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 61 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,588 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,960 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,497 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,122 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,155 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristy has been given almost only to girls: 80 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cristy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristy, and how old are they?
7,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 8,280 Americans ever recorded as Cristy. The median Cristy alive today is 48 years old; half are between 41 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 8,027 people named Cristy (7,869 women and girls, 158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,778 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 896 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,780 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 218 |
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 Cristy born?
The states with the most babies named Cristy are California, Texas and Ohio, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 882 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 749 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 284 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 259 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 256 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 242 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 230 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 220 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 216 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 213 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Cristy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristy is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1944 it was given 1.4 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 Cristy 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 Cristy?
Cristy is a less common spelling of Kristi: SSA has recorded 8,280 Cristy and 76,622 Kristi since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 240,792 babies since 1880, Cristy is the fourth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 100 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
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 Cristy
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 Cristy and names like it
- Compare Cristy and KristiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCristy peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristy since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Cristy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cristy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.