Krissy
Krissy was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,208 among girls’ names; 2,182 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,090 Americans named Krissy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 33 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krissy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Krissy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Krissy is “a diminutive of the female given names Kristine/Christine or Kristina/Christina.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Krissy?
#16,208 among girls’ names, 2025
Krissy fell from #9,249 in 2015 to #16,208 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.1 per million.
202 babies in 1978, the peak
Krissy peaked in 1978, when 202 girls were given it, #765 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,208 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,680 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,735 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,757 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,572 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,938 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,442 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,958 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,378 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,653 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,249 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,869 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,341 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,302 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,452 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,538 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,258 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,942 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,300 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,067 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,689 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,637 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,753 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,017 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,512 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,600 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,544 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,871 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,315 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,886 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,454 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,335 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,930 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,001 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,464 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,667 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,124 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,947 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,750 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,989 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,461 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,799 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,781 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,764 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 97 | #1,309 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 150 | #987 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 189 | #827 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 202 | #765 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,746 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,691 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,103 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,465 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,995 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,934 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,986 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,845 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,735 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,824 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,623 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,178 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,603 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,517 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,302 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krissy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krissy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Krissy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krissy, and how old are they?
2,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,182 Americans ever recorded as Krissy. The median Krissy alive today is 45 years old; half are between 33 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 2,605 people named Krissy (2,596 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,074 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above 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 | 55 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 914 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 698 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 287 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 136 |
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 Krissy born?
The states with the most babies named Krissy are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 187 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 131 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 40 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Krissy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krissy is most over-represented in Texas: since 1959 it was given 1.1 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 Krissy 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 12,433 babies since 1880, Krissy is the third most given (18% 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 Krissy
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 Krissy and names like it
- Compare Krissy and ChrissyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKrissy peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krissy since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Krissy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Krissy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.