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Krissy

#16,208 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Kristine or Christine or Kristina or Christina

Krissy has been given to 2,182 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #16,208 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 202 recorded.

Babies named Krissy, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krissy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Kristine or Christine or Kristina or Christina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krissy means

Krissy is a diminutive of Kristine or Christine or Kristina or Christina.

Origin, language, and formation

Krissy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kristine, Christine, Kristina and Christina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,182 girls were recorded with the name Krissy between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 202 in 1978; its best national rank was #765 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,938 in 2020 to #16,208 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,249 in 2015 to #16,208 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 Krissy?

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
#16,208
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krissy 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 Krissy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krissys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krissy was born before 1981 — so the typical Krissy is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,182
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (708).

Is Krissy 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
−4,528
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,270
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,959
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.5%
Peak was 1978 (202)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#765
1978

Spellings of Krissy

Krissy is not the most common spelling — Kristi is, with 25.4% against Krissy's 0.72%.

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 Krissy is used

Across 1910–2025, Krissy was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 188,553 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Krissy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Krissy around the world

Where Krissy 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
    2003–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1993–2020
    #7,336
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1993–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1982–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

People whose public names include Krissy, 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.

Krissy in other languages

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

KrissKrisyCrissy

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

Krissy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,208
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,270
Best rank ever
#765
1978
Peak year
1978
202 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,182
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Krissy

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

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Names with a curve like Krissy

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

TarraLaticiaKatriceTashiaKeenaNickoleDanyellDanyelJennifferMarivelKieshaShawnna

Sibling names for Krissy

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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