Kristy

Where Kristy comes from

Kristy 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. 1941
    First appearance
    #3,954 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1962
    Kristy McNichol born
    American actress
  3. 1969
    Kristy Swanson born
    American actress
  4. 1978
    Peak, #51
    5,332 babies named Kristy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #133.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kristy Swanson · American actress, born 1969
  • Kristy McNichol · American actress, born 1962
  • Kristy Wu · American actress, born 1982
  • Kristy Wallace · Australian basketball player, born 1996
  • Kristy Yang · Hong Kong actress, born 1974

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.