Recorded 1944–2025 · United States
Cristy was most popular in 1978, when 402 American babies were given the name — ranking #864 that year. In 2025 it ranked #12,329, with 15 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 8,280 people named Cristy.
Cristy first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1944, which makes it about 81 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 81 of the 82 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 8,280 American births named Cristy between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 7,800 are estimated to be alive today.
15 American babies were named Cristy in 2025, ranking #12,329 that year.
Cristy is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 18 births a year across 2021–2025 against 19 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Cristy is a girl’s name — 99.0% of the 8,280 Americans given it were girls and 1.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 7,800 Americans named Cristy are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 48 years old, and half are between 41 and 55.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org