first name
CHRISTY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 91,660 people named Christy, 81.7% reported their origin as White, 5.5% as Black and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Christy peaked in 1975, when 5,192 babies got the name.
At least 100,536 babies have been given the name since 1886. 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.
Christy by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #139. The largest share of babies named Christy, 57.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Christy is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Christy has been most common in Tennessee (2.5×), Alabama (2×), and Kentucky (1.9×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.25×).
95,810 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.
Either side of Christy
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Christy, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Christy ranks #2,771 of 156,621, with 12,667 people. See Christy as a last name
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