Christy
The girl's name Christy has been in the national records since 1886, with 100,536 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,172nd. About 92,000 Christys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 49.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Christy boys named Christy
Girls and boys called Christy
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Christy crossed from boys to girls in 1939, and has stayed there for 87 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 109 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 100,536
- Estimated living today
- 92,000
- Median age today
- 49
- Peak year
- 1975
- Best rank
- 53rd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,172nd
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 98,576 / 1,960
How old the living Christys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 100,536 babies given the name since 1886, about 92,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 8,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1976 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Christys
- Christy Turlington (born 1969)American model
- Christy Brown (1932–1981)Irish artist
- Christy Canyon (born 1966)American pornographic actress
- Christy Carlson Romano (born 1984)American actress
- Christy Walton (born 1949)American heiress, billionaire, and philanthropist
- Christy Moore (born 1945)Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist
- Christy Hemme (born 1980)American professional wrestling valet, semi-retired professional wrestler, ring announcer, former model, and singer
- Christy Mack (born 1991)American nude model and pornographic actress
People named Christy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Christy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Christy is most concentrated in Tennessee (2.5×), Alabama (2.0×), Kentucky (1.9×), Georgia (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1975
The most popular girls’ names the year Christy peaked:
Christy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Christy | 410 | 1,694th |
| Scotland girls | Christy | 294 | 176th |
| England and Wales girls | Christy | 273 | 737th |
| England and Wales boys | Christy | 245 | 694th |
| France boys | Christy | 160 | 5,128th |
| Ireland boys | Christy | 83 | 500th |
| Scotland boys | Christy | 38 | 291st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Christy | 32 | 210th |
| Belgium girls | Christy | 5 | 1,116th |
| Ireland girls | Christy | 3 | 689th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Christy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Christy | 5 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Christy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.