Kristy
Kristy was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,165 among girls’ names; 70,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 66,500 Americans named Kristy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 42 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kristy?
#5,165 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristy fell from #3,280 in 2015 to #5,165 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 15.6 per million.
5,352 babies in 1978, the peak
Kristy peaked in 1978, when 5,352 babies were given it (5,332 girls, #51 among girls’ names). The 25 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,165 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,963 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,189 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,109 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,118 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,253 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,827 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,421 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,225 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,816 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,280 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,337 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,147 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,109 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,603 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,904 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,843 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 158 | #1,477 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,484 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 162 | #1,347 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,283 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 191 | #1,137 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 215 | #1,011 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 207 | #1,037 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 269 | #832 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 264 | #821 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 305 | #725 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 338 | #653 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 485 | #494 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 512 | #486 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 586 | #430 | 0.33 |
| 1993 | 687 | #370 | 0.38 |
| 1992 | 838 | #325 | 0.45 |
| 1991 | 988 | #282 | 0.53 |
| 1990 | 1,133 | #248 | 0.60 |
| 1989 | 1,219 | #225 | 0.66 |
| 1988 | 1,280 | #205 | 0.72 |
| 1987 | 1,513 | #181 | 0.87 |
| 1986 | 1,787 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 2,022 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 1984 | 2,159 | #135 | 1.3 |
| 1983 | 2,242 | #133 | 1.3 |
| 1982 | 2,842 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 1981 | 3,263 | #94 | 2.0 |
| 1980 | 4,059 | #78 | 2.4 |
| 1979 | 4,880 | #56 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5,332 | #51 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 4,045 | #68 | 2.6 |
| 1976 | 2,327 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1975 | 1,920 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 1974 | 2,090 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 1973 | 1,891 | #147 | 1.3 |
| 1972 | 1,837 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1971 | 1,822 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1970 | 1,632 | #197 | 0.93 |
| 1969 | 1,372 | #220 | 0.81 |
| 1968 | 1,062 | #254 | 0.65 |
| 1967 | 835 | #300 | 0.51 |
| 1966 | 800 | #313 | 0.47 |
| 1965 | 780 | #323 | 0.44 |
| 1964 | 823 | #332 | 0.43 |
| 1963 | 741 | #348 | 0.38 |
| 1962 | 559 | #413 | 0.28 |
| 1961 | 581 | #404 | 0.29 |
| 1960 | 535 | #417 | 0.26 |
| 1959 | 491 | #432 | 0.24 |
| 1958 | 505 | #414 | 0.25 |
| 1957 | 405 | #470 | 0.20 |
| 1956 | 369 | #483 | 0.18 |
| 1955 | 300 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 268 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 278 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1952 | 332 | #463 | 0.18 |
| 1951 | 173 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 109 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 85 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,164 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 73 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,192 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,892 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,904 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,195 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristy has been given almost only to girls: 179 boys in 85 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kristy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristy, and how old are they?
66,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 70,703 Americans ever recorded as Kristy. The median Kristy alive today is 47 years old; half are between 42 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 63,534 people named Kristy (63,461 women and girls, 73 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 67,494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,520 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 34,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 570 |
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 Kristy born?
The states with the most babies named Kristy are California, Texas and New York, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6,750 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 4,852 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 3,581 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,531 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 3,301 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 3,271 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 2,852 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 2,310 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 2,294 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 2,161 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Kristy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristy is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1941 it was given 1.5 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 Kristy 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, Kristy is the third most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 108 babies (23%), the second 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 Kristy
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 Kristy and names like it
- Compare Kristy and KristiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKristy peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristy since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kristy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kristy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.