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Cristi

#15,435 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Cristian

Cristi has been given to 3,203 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #15,435 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 159 recorded.

Babies named Cristi, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cristi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Cristian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cristi means

Cristi is a diminutive of Cristian.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cristi is used in Romanian.

Origin, language, and formation

Cristi is used in English, Aromanian and Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cristian and Christie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cristi is pronounced /ˈkɹɪsti/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,203 girls were recorded with the name Cristi between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 159 in 1973; its best national rank was #825 in 1973.

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 Cristi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,435
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cristi 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cristi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cristis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cristi was born before 1973 — so the typical Cristi is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,183
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1970s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (1,267).

Is Cristi 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
3.1%
Peak was 1973 (159)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#825
1973

Spellings of Cristi

Cristi is not the most common spelling — Kristin is, with 23.0% against Cristi's 0.41%.

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 Cristi is used

Across 1910–2025, Cristi was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 105,479 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Nebraska1 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. Cristi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cristi around the world

Where Cristi 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
    2020–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021
  • France
    2010–2025
    #6,527
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Cristi

People whose public names include Cristi, 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.

Cristi in other languages

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

CristyKristiChristiCristianCristiena

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

Cristi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,435
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#825
1973
Peak year
1973
159 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,203
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Cristi

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

CristyCrissyCristaCrimsonCristelCristenCristinCristalCricketCristieDustiCristineHonestiCristelaCrissaCriseldaCristianaKirstiCristianCrisDynastiKrystiCrissieMisti

Names with a curve like Cristi

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

RolandaTraceeCarriMilissaShonnaDioneKareyShonaAngellaTrishMarniTangela

Sibling names for Cristi

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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