How rare is the name Christie?

42,083 people in the United States have the first name Christie, about 1 in 7,177. It ranks #1,014 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CHRISTIE

#1,014

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
42,083
About
1 in 7,177
This common or more
70.2%
Who bears it

Of the 42,083 people named Christie, 79.4% reported their origin as White, 7.5% as Black and 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Christie peaked in 1975, when 3,042 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18812025
Peak year
1975
Births that year
3,042
In 2025*
14 ▼100%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 46,897 babies have been given the name since 1881. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Christie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #308. The largest share of babies named Christie, 50.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#1,52068
1890s#1,373134
1900s#2,11684
1910s#2,343246
1920s#2,523328
1930s#2,761242
1940s#1,0941,567
1950s#7664,452
1960s#6327,107
1970s#30818,283
1980s#5059,754
1990s#1,2613,206
2000s#3,662871
2010s#6,450412
2020s#9,196143
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–271.2%
Silent Generation 1928–451.9%
Baby boom 1946–6417.5%
Generation X 1965–8050.7%
Millennials 1981–9624%
Generation Z 1997–123.4%
2013 and later0.8%

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 Christie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Christie has been most common in Tennessee (1.8×), Alabama (1.5×), and Oklahoma (1.5×), and least common in South Dakota (0.29×).

42,364 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, Christie ranks #2,006 of 156,621, with 17,609 people. See Christie as a last name

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