Crissy

Where Crissy comes from

Crissy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Crissy Rock born
    English actress and comedian
  3. 1970
    Crissy Ahmann-Leighton born
    American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
  4. 1978
    Peak, #616
    274 babies named Crissy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,045.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Crissy Ahmann-Leighton · American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder, born 1970
  • Crissy Rock · English actress and comedian, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.