How rare is the name Christi?

19,328 people in the United States have the first name Christi, about 1 in 15,627. It ranks #1,635 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CHRISTI

#1,635

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
19,328
About
1 in 15,627
This common or more
76.1%
Who bears it

Of the 19,328 people named Christi, 85.7% reported their origin as White, 4.6% as Black and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Christi peaked in 1974, when 940 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19402024
Peak year
1974
Births that year
940
In 2024
7 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 20,932 babies have been given the name since 1940. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Christi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #545. The largest share of babies named Christi, 57.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#3,132230
1950s#1,1432,071
1960s#7585,133
1970s#5458,428
1980s#9893,719
1990s#2,746956
2000s#8,342261
2010s#16,96298
2020s#21,35636
Silent Generation 1928–450.3%
Baby boom 1946–6421%
Generation X 1965–8057.4%
Millennials 1981–9618.8%
Generation Z 1997–122.1%
2013 and later0.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Christi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Christi has been most common in Oklahoma (2.9×), Texas (2.6×), and Louisiana (1.8×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.09×).

18,292 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Also a last name

As a last name, Christi ranks #82,347 of 156,621, with 247 people. See Christi as a last name

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