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Chrissie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Christine

Chrissie has been given to 1,105 babies in the U.S. since 1888. 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 1979, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Chrissie, 2018

1 in 703,000

Chrissie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chrissie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Christine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chrissie means

Chrissie is a diminutive of Christine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chrissie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɪs.i/ for Chrissie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Chrissie → Christine → Christine → Chrīstiāna. The family’s meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Christianus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

from Chris + -ie, through clipping of Christine or Christina

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Chrissie (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chrissie is pronounced /ˈkɹɪsi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,105 girls were recorded with the name Chrissie between 1888 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 75 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,020 in 1890.

How common is Chrissie?

Chrissie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chrissie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chrissie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chrissies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chrissie was born before 1978 — so the typical Chrissie is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,025
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (350).

Is Chrissie 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (75)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,020
1890

Spellings of Chrissie

Chrissie is not the most common spelling — Christine is, with 86.1% against Chrissie's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chrissie is used

Across 1910–2025, Chrissie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 651,187 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chrissie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chrissie around the world

Where Chrissie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1987–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • France
    1984–2008
    #5,170
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1944–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chrissie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,020
1890
Peak year
1979
75 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
1,105
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chrissie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Chrissie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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