Chirsty
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chirsty has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Chirsty, 1990
1 in 790,000
Chirsty over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chirsty?
Chirsty had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 790,000
- 5 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 547,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chirsty sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chirsty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chirstys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chirsty was born before 1977 — so the typical Chirsty is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 64.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 85
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Chirsty rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (16)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 68.3% average annual change
Spellings of Chirsty
Chirsty is not the most common spelling — Christy is, with 68.8% against Chirsty's 0.06%.
Chirsty around the world
Where Chirsty ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1993–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chirsty by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chirsty
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chirsty
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.