Christy

At the 2020 census, 12,667 Americans bore the surname Christy — 2,771st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,600.

By the numbers

People: 12,667
Rank: 2,771st
How common: 1 in 23,600
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Christy

James W. Christy (born 1938)American astronomer
June Christy (1925–1990)American singer
Dorothy Christy (1900–1977)American actress
Ann Christy (1945–1984)Belgian singer
Richard Christy (born 1974)American drummer
Robert F. Christy (1916–2012)Canadian-American theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
Ann Christy (1905–1987)American actress
Howard Chandler Christy (1873–1952)American artist

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

Surnames like Christy

Also a first name

Christy has been given to 100,536 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 1975. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.