Cristy

Where Cristy comes from

Cristy 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. 1940
    Cristy Lane born
    American musician
  2. 1944
    First appearance
    #4,054 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1978
    Peak, #484
    402 babies named Cristy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1986
    Cristy Nurse born
    Canadian rower
  5. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #909.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Cristy Nurse · Canadian rower, born 1986
  • Cristy Lane · American musician, born 1940
  • Cristy Road · American artist, born 1982
  • Cristy Fermin · Filipino television personality, born 1956

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.