Meaning not yet researched.
Krissy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #765 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #765 in 1978; #16,212 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Krissy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,212 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #765.
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Krissy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #765 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 202 (1978).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Krissy, making it the 16,212th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,527 places from #11,685 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Krissy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #765, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 202. For comparison, it was #9,254 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Krissy in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 7 babies. In all, 2,182 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 708 babies named Krissy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 95 US girls were named Krissy; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Crissy (2,592 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Krissie, Krisi and Krissia are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Krissie (422), Krisi (146), Krissia (116), Krisie (52), Krisia (17).
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.
No nicknames listed for Krissy in the open dataset we use.
Krissy is listed as a nickname for Kristina.
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 | 5 | #16,212 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,685 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,740 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,762 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,577 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,943 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,447 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,962 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,382 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,656 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,254 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,871 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,346 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,306 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,455 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,542 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,262 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,946 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,304 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,070 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,694 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,642 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,758 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,022 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,517 | — | — |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,550 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,875 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,319 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,891 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1981 | 97 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1980 | 150 | #987 | — | — |
| 1979 | 189 | #827 | — | — |
| 1978 | 202 | #765 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,604 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,518 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,966 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,303 | — | — |
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).