Meaning not yet researched.
Kristy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #51 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #51 in 1978; #5,166 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,166 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #51.
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Kristy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #51 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 5,332 (1978).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Kristy, making it the 5,166th most common girls’ name of the year, down 200 places from #4,966 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 27 girls named Kristy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #51, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,332. For comparison, it was #3,280 in 2015 and #846 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristy in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 6 babies. In all, 70,703 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 27,862 babies named Kristy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 357 US girls were named Kristy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christine (588,495 babies since 1880), Christina (481,707 babies since 1880), Kristin (180,951 babies since 1880) and Kristina (137,118 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Chris.
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.
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.
Kristy 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 | 25 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,966 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,192 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,114 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,123 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,828 | — | — |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 2007 | 158 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2005 | 162 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2003 | 191 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 2002 | 215 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2001 | 207 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 2000 | 269 | #832 | — | — |
| 1999 | 264 | #822 | — | — |
| 1998 | 305 | #725 | — | — |
| 1997 | 338 | #653 | — | — |
| 1996 | 485 | #494 | — | — |
| 1995 | 512 | #486 | — | — |
| 1994 | 586 | #430 | — | — |
| 1993 | 687 | #370 | — | — |
| 1992 | 838 | #325 | — | — |
| 1991 | 988 | #282 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,133 | #248 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,219 | #225 | 7 | #6,626 |
| 1988 | 1,280 | #205 | 7 | #6,155 |
| 1987 | 1,513 | #181 | 5 | #7,620 |
| 1986 | 1,787 | #158 | 5 | #7,327 |
| 1985 | 2,022 | #145 | — | — |
| 1984 | 2,159 | #135 | 5 | #6,889 |
| 1983 | 2,242 | #133 | — | — |
| 1982 | 2,842 | #104 | 11 | #3,826 |
| 1981 | 3,263 | #94 | 11 | #3,746 |
| 1980 | 4,059 | #78 | 16 | #2,904 |
| 1979 | 4,880 | #56 | 13 | #3,268 |
| 1978 | 5,332 | #51 | 20 | #2,334 |
| 1977 | 4,045 | #68 | 18 | #2,517 |
| 1976 | 2,327 | #113 | 11 | #3,384 |
| 1975 | 1,920 | #141 | 7 | #4,581 |
| 1974 | 2,090 | #133 | 11 | #3,236 |
| 1973 | 1,891 | #147 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,837 | #158 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,822 | #171 | 6 | #4,687 |
| 1970 | 1,632 | #197 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,372 | #220 | 9 | #3,207 |
| 1968 | 1,062 | #254 | — | — |
| 1967 | 835 | #300 | 10 | #2,699 |
| 1966 | 800 | #313 | — | — |
| 1965 | 780 | #323 | — | — |
| 1964 | 823 | #332 | — | — |
| 1963 | 741 | #348 | — | — |
| 1962 | 559 | #413 | — | — |
| 1961 | 581 | #404 | — | — |
| 1960 | 535 | #417 | 7 | #3,509 |
| 1959 | 491 | #432 | — | — |
| 1958 | 505 | #414 | — | — |
| 1957 | 405 | #470 | — | — |
| 1956 | 369 | #484 | — | — |
| 1955 | 300 | #531 | — | — |
| 1954 | 268 | #543 | — | — |
| 1953 | 278 | #514 | — | — |
| 1952 | 332 | #464 | — | — |
| 1951 | 173 | #667 | — | — |
| 1950 | 109 | #846 | — | — |
| 1949 | 85 | #971 | — | — |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1947 | 73 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,894 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,197 | — | — |
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).