girls:
2.2k births since 1959
#3692 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1959
#5621 (27th percentile)
The name Krissy is the #5,621 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,168 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 27.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,692 (35.4% percentile) for all time with 2,168 births since 1959.
Krissy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (first recorded for girls in 1959).
For girls, Krissy reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 25.8% percentile (ranked #561) with 123 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 123 births per million (ranked 25.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Krissy ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Krissy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Krissy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Krissy is pronounced as KRIH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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