Kristi
Kristi was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,697 among girls’ names; 76,622 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 70,800 Americans named Kristi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 44 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kristi is “a diminutive of the female given name Christina, variant of Christie.”
/ˈkɹɪsti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristi?
#7,697 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristi fell from #5,581 in 2015 to #7,697 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 8.7 per million.
3,279 babies in 1971, the peak
Kristi peaked in 1971, when 3,279 babies were given it (3,271 girls, #113 among girls’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,697 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,845 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,470 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,078 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,729 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,255 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,715 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,147 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,127 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,386 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,581 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,102 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,369 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,489 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,870 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,807 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,112 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,104 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,450 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,385 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 94 | #2,009 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 79 | #2,234 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,748 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,541 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,413 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,161 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,077 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 258 | #826 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 320 | #678 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 404 | #574 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 441 | #538 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 572 | #443 | 0.32 |
| 1993 | 652 | #391 | 0.36 |
| 1992 | 916 | #305 | 0.50 |
| 1991 | 918 | #303 | 0.49 |
| 1990 | 1,041 | #269 | 0.55 |
| 1989 | 1,173 | #233 | 0.64 |
| 1988 | 1,235 | #211 | 0.69 |
| 1987 | 1,420 | #195 | 0.82 |
| 1986 | 1,615 | #168 | 0.94 |
| 1985 | 1,754 | #163 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 1,766 | #159 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 1,870 | #154 | 1.1 |
| 1982 | 2,143 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 1981 | 2,205 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1980 | 2,525 | #122 | 1.5 |
| 1979 | 2,800 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 1978 | 2,992 | #98 | 2.0 |
| 1977 | 2,797 | #104 | 1.8 |
| 1976 | 2,519 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 1975 | 2,646 | #109 | 1.8 |
| 1974 | 2,884 | #102 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 2,846 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 1972 | 3,131 | #102 | 2.1 |
| 1971 | 3,271 | #113 | 2.0 |
| 1970 | 3,149 | #123 | 1.8 |
| 1969 | 2,647 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 1968 | 2,313 | #138 | 1.4 |
| 1967 | 2,011 | #165 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 1,760 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 1965 | 1,608 | #206 | 0.91 |
| 1964 | 1,669 | #209 | 0.88 |
| 1963 | 1,421 | #232 | 0.74 |
| 1962 | 1,215 | #256 | 0.62 |
| 1961 | 1,205 | #257 | 0.60 |
| 1960 | 1,058 | #278 | 0.52 |
| 1959 | 911 | #303 | 0.45 |
| 1958 | 842 | #319 | 0.42 |
| 1957 | 800 | #322 | 0.39 |
| 1956 | 669 | #338 | 0.33 |
| 1955 | 591 | #357 | 0.30 |
| 1954 | 355 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1953 | 310 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1952 | 292 | #490 | 0.16 |
| 1951 | 273 | #496 | 0.15 |
| 1950 | 167 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 164 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 122 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 109 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 112 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,755 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,361 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristi has been given almost only to girls: 138 boys in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kristi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristi, and how old are they?
70,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 76,622 Americans ever recorded as Kristi. The median Kristi alive today is 51 years old; half are between 44 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 69,585 people named Kristi (69,405 women and girls, 180 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 72,428 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 79 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 229 |
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 Kristi born?
The states with the most babies named Kristi are Texas, California and Michigan, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7,773 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 6,635 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 3,327 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 3,121 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 2,909 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 2,820 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,658 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 2,370 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 2,204 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 2,128 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Kristi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristi is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1940 it was given 3.2 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 Kristi 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 281,888 babies since 1880, Kristi is the most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 108 babies (13%), the fourth 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 Kristi
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 Kristi and names like it
- Compare Kristi and KristaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKristi peaked in 1971.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristi since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Kristi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kristi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.