How rare is the name Cristy?

8,027 people in the United States have the first name Cristy, about 1 in 37,627. It ranks #2,868 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CRISTY

#2,868

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,027
About
1 in 37,627
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 8,027 people named Cristy, 70% reported their origin as White, 17.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 98% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cristy peaked in 1978, when 402 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19442025
Peak year
1978
Births that year
402
In 2025*
15 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,280 babies have been given the name since 1944. 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.

Cristy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,000. The largest share of babies named Cristy, 48.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#6,22465
1950s#2,257562
1960s#1,7161,106
1970s#1,0003,134
1980s#1,3842,134
1990s#3,703618
2000s#6,598368
2010s#11,391181
2020s#10,778112
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–6413.3%
Generation X 1965–8048.8%
Millennials 1981–9628.4%
Generation Z 1997–126.7%
2013 and later2.6%

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 Cristy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cristy has been most common in Tennessee (2.2×), Texas (1.8×), and Oklahoma (1.8×), and least common in Washington (0.42×).

5,355 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 Cristy

#2,865 Myah · 8,030#2,867 Duke · 8,029#2,869 Claudine · 8,026#2,869 Debby · 8,026

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cristy, most common first.

#4,598 Crista · 4,000#5,519 Cristi · 3,090#10,418 Cristo · 1,283#15,863 Crist · 719#28,022 Cristyn · 323

Also a last name

As a last name, Cristy ranks #88,580 of 156,621, with 225 people. See Cristy as a last name

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