Kristi
Kristi is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 98th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19713,271 births
- Best rank
- #98in 1978
- Since 1940
- 76,472people given the name
The story in the numbers
76,472 girls have been named Kristi in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 3,271 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 3,271 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1975, and the 1970s alone account for 38%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kristi | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 656 | |
| 1950s | 5,210 | |
| 1960s | 16,907 | |
| 1970s | 29,036 | |
| 1980s | 17,707 | |
| 1990s | 5,708 | |
| 2000s | 948 | |
| 2010s | 248 | |
| 2020s | 52 |
In 1971, its biggest year
Kristi was the 113th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1971 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Kristi
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Demetricepeak 1975
- Kerripeak 1975
- Larondapeak 1973
- Chandrapeak 1975
- Latriciapeak 1974
- Melyndapeak 1973
- Kerriepeak 1971
- Karripeak 1976
Other spellings in the data
- Christy100,500 ever
- Kristy70,496 ever
- Christie45,998 ever
- Kristie38,353 ever
- Christi20,910 ever
- Cristy8,185 ever
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.