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Chrissy

#7,568 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Christine

Chrissy has been given to 4,459 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #7,568 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 560 recorded.

Babies named Chrissy, 2025

1 in 237,000

Chrissy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chrissy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Christine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chrissy means

Chrissy is a diminutive of Christine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Chrissy is used in English.

Chrissy comes through Indonesian diminutive.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christine and Christina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chrissy is pronounced /ˈkɹɪsi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,459 girls were recorded with the name Chrissy between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 560 in 1978; its best national rank was #378 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,514 in 2020 to #7,568 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,007 in 2015 to #7,568 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chrissy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,568
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chrissy 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 2025 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chrissy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chrissys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chrissy was born before 1980 — so the typical Chrissy is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,453
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Choose a decade

1970s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (1,613).

Is Chrissy 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
−251
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,054
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,561
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.5%
Peak was 1978 (560)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#378
1978

Spellings of Chrissy

Chrissy is not the most common spelling — Christy is, with 41.4% against Chrissy's 1.9%.

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 Chrissy is used

Across 1910–2025, Chrissy was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 67,141 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 50,000

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. Chrissy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chrissy around the world

Where Chrissy 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
    1997–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    2008–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • France
    1985–2024
    #7,213
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1976–1999
    #483
    in 1999

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

Notable people named Chrissy

People whose public names include Chrissy, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chrissy in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chrissy. Linked forms have their own page here.

CrissCrissyChrissie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chrissy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,568
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,054
Best rank ever
#378
1978
Peak year
1978
560 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,459
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Chrissy

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

ChristalChristenChristaChrystalChristynChristelChrislynKrissyChristiChristeneChristinChristianMissyHennessyChristieChrissaChristyChristianaChristanChristenaChristeenChrystaChristiannaChrissie

Names with a curve like Chrissy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chrissy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DustyJammieMindiBrianMellisaShanonMellissaBrittShandraEricShannanJenni

Sibling names for Chrissy

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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