Meaning not yet researched.
Christy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #53 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #53 in 1975; #4,191 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Christy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,191 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #53.
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Christy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #53 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 5,168 (1975).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Christy, making it the 4,191st most common girls’ name of the year, down 722 places from #3,469 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 45 girls named Christy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #53, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,168. For comparison, it was #2,263 in 2015 and #362 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christy in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 100,536 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 44,840 babies named Christy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 540 US girls were named Christy; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christie (46,897 babies since 1880), Christin (12,217 babies since 1880), Cristy (8,280 babies since 1880) and Christi (20,932 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Christia, Khristy and Christee are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Crissy.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Christia (819), Khristy (332), Christee (180), Khristi (146), Chrysti (50), Christey (40), Christye (32).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Christy is listed as a nickname for Christiana, Christina, Christine, Kristine.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,235 | 6 | #10,859 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,217 | 5 | #12,424 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,662 | 5 | #12,629 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,680 | 5 | #12,585 |
| 2009 | 121 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 2006 | 189 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2005 | 223 | #1,069 | 5 | #11,758 |
| 2004 | 228 | #1,023 | 6 | #10,189 |
| 2003 | 243 | #961 | — | — |
| 2002 | 285 | #815 | 5 | #10,961 |
| 2001 | 301 | #786 | 8 | #7,656 |
| 2000 | 362 | #667 | — | — |
| 1999 | 335 | #678 | — | — |
| 1998 | 392 | #614 | 6 | #8,662 |
| 1997 | 403 | #575 | 6 | #8,310 |
| 1996 | 543 | #462 | 8 | #6,603 |
| 1995 | 574 | #449 | — | — |
| 1994 | 637 | #395 | 5 | #9,025 |
| 1993 | 608 | #409 | 9 | #5,842 |
| 1992 | 720 | #357 | 9 | #5,722 |
| 1991 | 798 | #332 | 9 | #5,585 |
| 1990 | 974 | #286 | 8 | #5,916 |
| 1989 | 1,093 | #245 | — | — |
| 1988 | 1,129 | #233 | 12 | #3,946 |
| 1987 | 1,293 | #207 | 10 | #4,301 |
| 1986 | 1,555 | #174 | 22 | #2,439 |
| 1985 | 1,941 | #151 | 12 | #3,630 |
| 1984 | 2,028 | #145 | 12 | #3,497 |
| 1983 | 1,974 | #146 | 14 | #3,092 |
| 1982 | 2,598 | #115 | 13 | #3,315 |
| 1981 | 2,943 | #99 | 11 | #3,648 |
| 1980 | 3,673 | #83 | 17 | #2,743 |
| 1979 | 4,286 | #72 | 22 | #2,246 |
| 1978 | 4,661 | #59 | 19 | #2,388 |
| 1977 | 4,602 | #59 | 21 | #2,216 |
| 1976 | 4,853 | #60 | 32 | #1,650 |
| 1975 | 5,168 | #53 | 24 | #1,954 |
| 1974 | 5,067 | #57 | 31 | #1,589 |
| 1973 | 4,121 | #73 | 16 | #2,419 |
| 1972 | 4,190 | #74 | 23 | #1,877 |
| 1971 | 3,930 | #89 | 32 | #1,532 |
| 1970 | 3,714 | #105 | 28 | #1,625 |
| 1969 | 3,052 | #116 | 26 | #1,614 |
| 1968 | 2,139 | #151 | 17 | #1,969 |
| 1967 | 1,314 | #223 | 13 | #2,255 |
| 1966 | 1,136 | #251 | 13 | #2,236 |
| 1965 | 1,128 | #254 | 19 | #1,813 |
| 1964 | 1,374 | #235 | 21 | #1,740 |
| 1963 | 1,209 | #254 | 27 | #1,515 |
| 1962 | 1,068 | #275 | 22 | #1,717 |
| 1961 | 1,163 | #263 | 28 | #1,526 |
| 1960 | 1,164 | #262 | 18 | #1,918 |
| 1959 | 1,023 | #277 | 29 | #1,467 |
| 1958 | 1,116 | #261 | 31 | #1,402 |
| 1957 | 957 | #293 | 29 | #1,457 |
| 1956 | 859 | #303 | 26 | #1,541 |
| 1955 | 835 | #303 | 34 | #1,294 |
| 1954 | 659 | #329 | 26 | #1,502 |
| 1953 | 619 | #334 | 29 | #1,410 |
| 1952 | 747 | #296 | 39 | #1,184 |
| 1951 | 565 | #333 | 32 | #1,302 |
| 1950 | 478 | #362 | 28 | #1,367 |
| 1949 | 421 | #384 | 37 | #1,164 |
| 1948 | 270 | #495 | 28 | #1,381 |
| 1947 | 276 | #494 | 23 | #1,564 |
| 1946 | 181 | #592 | 26 | #1,386 |
| 1945 | 82 | #831 | 19 | #1,544 |
| 1944 | 69 | #926 | 21 | #1,489 |
| 1943 | 79 | #880 | 20 | #1,588 |
| 1942 | 93 | #789 | 17 | #1,743 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,227 | 25 | #1,337 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,376 | 15 | #1,814 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,554 | 15 | #1,806 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,504 | 19 | #1,570 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,874 | 16 | #1,768 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,283 | 17 | #1,653 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,795 | 23 | #1,427 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,772 | 26 | #1,327 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,158 | 21 | #1,508 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,630 | 26 | #1,361 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,432 | 28 | #1,307 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,441 | 24 | #1,500 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,760 | 28 | #1,342 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,824 | 31 | #1,298 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,329 | 32 | #1,298 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,625 | 43 | #1,066 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,096 | 28 | #1,396 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,712 | 38 | #1,173 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,413 | 22 | #1,650 |
| 1922 | — | — | 45 | #1,046 |
| 1921 | — | — | 39 | #1,144 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,484 | 21 | #1,705 |
| 1919 | — | — | 36 | #1,166 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,566 | 25 | #1,453 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,788 | 15 | #2,003 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,007 | 27 | #1,308 |
| 1915 | — | — | 21 | #1,514 |
| 1914 | — | — | 25 | #1,161 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,271 | 10 | #1,828 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,616 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,129 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,415 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,003 | 6 | #1,141 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,065 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #892 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #992 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).