Christy

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Christy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 53rd, in 1975.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 450.00% of girls
Peak year: 19755,168 births
Best rank: #53in 1975
Since 1887: 100,500people given the name

Babies named Christy, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

98,541 girls have been named Christy in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 5,168 births — 0.35% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 45 births in 2024, against 5,168 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1975, and the 1970s alone account for 45%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 11 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,959 boys have also been given it, 1.9% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Christy
1880s	5
1890s	10
1900s	5
1910s	26
1920s	65
1930s	112
1940s	1,539
1950s	7,858
1960s	14,747
1970s	44,592
1980s	20,227
1990s	5,984
2000s	2,257
2010s	889
2020s	225

In 1975, its biggest year

Christy was the 53rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.

Names that rose and fell with Christy

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.