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Crissy

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Crissy has been given to 2,592 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 274 recorded.

Babies named Crissy, 2024

1 in 669,000

Crissy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Crissy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Crissy means

Crissy is a given name.

The naming story behind Crissy

Wikidata records Crissy as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q96588642, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,592 girls were recorded with the name Crissy between 1947 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 274 in 1978; its best national rank was #616 in 1978.

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.

How common is Crissy?

Crissy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Crissy 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Crissy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Crissys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Crissy was born before 1979 — so the typical Crissy is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
48.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,587
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (1,255).

Is Crissy 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (274)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#616
1978

Spellings of Crissy

Crissy is not the most common spelling — Christy is, with 40.5% against Crissy's 1.1%.

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 Crissy is used

Across 1910–2025, Crissy was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 114,443 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 50,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Hawaii1 in 100,000

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

Crissy around the world

Where Crissy 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.

  • France
    1995–1995
    #3,393
    in 1995
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1977–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). 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 Crissy

People whose public names include Crissy, 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.

Crissy in other languages

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

KrisyCrissiKrissyChrissyCrisseyCrissie

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

Crissy 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
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Best rank ever
#616
1978
Peak year
1978
274 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,592
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Crissy

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

CristiCristyKrissyCrimsonCristelCristaCristenCricketJessyCristieCristinChrissyCristalPessyMissyZissyCristelaCrissaCriseldaCristineHennessyCristianaRossyCassy

Names with a curve like Crissy

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

KeeshaNicholMistieQianaLatrinaTamicaShawandaLashundaCarisaShawndaCicelyTakisha

Sibling names for Crissy

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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