Cristy
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #7,559
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 402 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,200since 1944
Cristy over time
Rank among girls' names. Cristy has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | — | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | — | |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #3,532 | 40 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,009 | 47 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #3,404 | 39 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,509 | 35 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #2,229 | 60 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #2,880 | 41 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #2,217 | 59 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #1,798 | 80 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,628 | 92 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,493 | 104 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,551 | 91 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #1,226 | 122 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,098 | 138 | — | |
| 1986 | #909 | 177 | — | |
| 1985 | #758 | 225 | — | |
| 1984 | #701 | 237 | — | |
| 1983 | #625 | 276 | — | |
| 1982 | #710 | 244 | — | |
| 1981 | #562 | 330 | — | |
| 1980 | #633 | 288 | — | |
| 1979 | #520 | 370 | — | |
| 1978 | #484 | 402 | — | |
| 1977 | #553 | 318 | — | |
| 1976 | #532 | 329 | — | |
| 1975 | #539 | 321 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #522 | 322 | — | |
| 1973 | #571 | 286 | — | |
| 1972 | #586 | 273 | — | |
| 1971 | #622 | 270 | — | |
| 1970 | #668 | 238 | — | |
| 1969 | #753 | 180 | — | |
| 1968 | #861 | 141 | — | |
| 1967 | #959 | 113 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,135 | 87 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,042 | 101 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,042 | 108 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,087 | 99 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,177 | 87 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,144 | 92 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,087 | 98 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,149 | 86 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,211 | 77 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,262 | 69 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #1,279 | 66 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,537 | 44 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,267 | 61 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,586 | 38 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,386 | 49 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,740 | 31 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,550 | 36 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,274 | 19 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,953 | 24 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 | — | |
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| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cristy! It came in at #4,054, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Cristy is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#395 · 1 in 2,244
- North Carolina#503 · 1 in 4,260
- Tennessee#522 · 1 in 4,133
- Georgia#558 · 1 in 4,458
- Pennsylvania#858 · 1 in 9,987
Best ever in a state: #182 in New Hampshire, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #395 | 6 | 1 in 2,244 |
| North Carolina | #503 | 9 | 1 in 4,260 |
| Tennessee | #522 | 7 | 1 in 4,133 |
| Georgia | #558 | 9 | 1 in 4,458 |
| Pennsylvania | #858 | 7 | 1 in 9,987 |
| Florida | #863 | 9 | 1 in 8,102 |
| Michigan | #1,014 | 5 | 1 in 11,487 |
| Texas | #1,083 | 12 | 1 in 10,691 |
| California | #1,508 | 13 | 1 in 17,572 |
| New York | #1,842 | 5 | 1 in 22,810 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cristy
- 2,112 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #7,133)
- 1,283 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #7,133)
- 1,097 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #7,133)
- Biggest jump: 176 spots in 1967 (#1,135 → #959)
- Biggest drop: 189 spots in 1987 (#909 → #1,098)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1978 at #484 (402 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1967–1986
- Highest: 1 in 3,811 girls born in 1978 were named Cristy (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.2% of all girls named Cristy (3,129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 65 | #1,953 (1948) | #3,151 |
| 1950s | 557 | #1,149 (1959) | #1,397 |
| 1960s | 1,106 | #753 (1969) | #1,029 |
| 1970s | 3,129 | #484 (1978) | #560 |
| 1980s | 2,128 | #562 (1981) | #877 |
| 1990s | 592 | #1,493 (1990) | #2,508 |
| 2000s | 345 | #3,009 (2001) | #4,216 |
| 2010s | 166 | #5,247 (2010) | #7,455 |
| 2020s | 112 | #5,021 (2024) | #6,415 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cristy in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 14,597 of them was named Cristy, which outranked 91.2% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).