How rare is the name Kristy?

63,534 people in the United States have the first name Kristy, about 1 in 4,754. It ranks #779 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KRISTY

#779

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
63,534
About
1 in 4,754
This common or more
66.3%
Who bears it

Of the 63,534 people named Kristy, 82.1% reported their origin as White, 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kristy peaked in 1978, when 5,352 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19412025
Peak year
1978
Births that year
5,352
In 2025*
25 ▼100%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 70,703 babies have been given the name since 1941. 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.

Kristy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #215. The largest share of babies named Kristy, 52.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#2,758291
1950s#9103,230
1960s#5898,114
1970s#21527,862
1980s#26422,453
1990s#8096,136
2000s#2,2201,777
2010s#4,563679
2020s#8,506161
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–649.5%
Generation X 1965–8052.1%
Millennials 1981–9633.4%
Generation Z 1997–124.2%
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 Kristy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kristy has been most common in Utah (2×), Wyoming (1.8×), and Idaho (1.7×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.2×).

68,003 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 Kristy

#777 Valeria · 63,605#778 Jonah · 63,551#780 Lewis · 63,422#781 Lloyd · 63,231

Spelled almost the same

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

#732 Kristi · 69,585#754 Krista · 66,762#2,880 Kristyn · 7,978#16,356 Kriste · 691#19,129 Krist · 558#34,922 Kristyl · 232#35,884 Kristo · 223#46,361 Kristl · 144

Also a last name

As a last name, Kristy ranks #66,171 of 156,621, with 323 people. See Kristy as a last name

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