girls:
76.5k births since 1940
#445 (92nd percentile)
boys:
138 births since 1968
#4448 (3rd percentile)
overall:
76.6k births since 1940
#822 (89th percentile)
The name Kristi is the #822 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 76,602 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 89.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #445 (92.2% percentile) for all time with 76,464 births since 1940. For boys, it ranks #4,448 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 138 births since 1968.
Kristi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1968 for boys).
The name Kristi has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kristi reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 87.5% percentile (ranked #95) with 1,820 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 1,942 births per million (ranked 86.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kristi ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kristi reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #672) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kristi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kristi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kristi is pronounced as KRIH-stee, which has 2 syllables.
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