Christie

At the 2020 census, 17,609 Americans bore the surname Christie — 2,006th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,000.

By the numbers

People: 17,609
Rank: 2,006th
How common: 1 in 17,000
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Christie described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%

Notable people called Christie

Agatha Christie (1890–1976)English mystery and detective writer
Julie Christie (born 1940)British actress
Gwendoline Christie (born 1978)British actress
Chris Christie (born 1962)55th Governor of New Jersey and former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey
Linford Christie (born 1960)English athlete, Olympic medalist
Perry Christie (born 1943)Bahamian politician
Ryan Christie (born 1995)Scottish association football player
Cyrus Christie (born 1992)Irish footballer

People named Christie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Christie

Also a first name

Christie has been given to 46,897 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1975. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.