Christy Girl
How popular is Christy?
#4,171 girl name in 2025
34 baby girls were named Christy in the US in 2025, making it the 4171st most popular girl name.
Christy popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #4,171 for girls (▼ 712 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 34 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-59% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,259 in 2015, #3,221 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1975 (5,168 girls) |
| Highest rank | #53 in 1975 |
| First recorded | 1887 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 1% boys, 99% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Christy counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Christy family of names ranked #2,411 for girls in 2025 (#1,790 the year before), with 48 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Christy | 34 | 71% |
| Christie | 14 | 29% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Christy is most popular
Babies named Christy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maryland: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (30 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Christy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,147 |
| 1890s | 10 | #1,595 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,951 |
| 1910s | 26 | #3,185 |
| 1920s | 65 | #2,736 |
| 1930s | 112 | #1,544 |
| 1940s | 1,539 | #383 |
| 1950s | 7,858 | #261 |
| 1960s | 14,747 | #116 |
| 1970s | 44,592 | #53 |
| 1980s | 20,227 | #83 |
| 1990s | 5,984 | #286 |
| 2000s | 2,257 | #667 |
| 2010s | 889 | #1,661 |
| 2020s | 260 | #3,033 |
Girl names about as popular as Christy
Questions
- Is Christy a boy or girl name?
- Christy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 99% of babies named Christy were girls.
- How popular is the name Christy?
- 34 baby girls were named Christy in the US in 2025, making it the 4171st most popular girl name.
- When was Christy most popular?
- Christy peaked in 1975, when 5,168 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #53 in 1975.
- How many people are named Christy?
- 100,536 babies have been named Christy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 92,909 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 50.
- Where is Christy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Christy was most common in Maryland, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.