girls:
38.3k births since 1940
#696 (88th percentile)
boys:
44 births since 1971
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
38.4k births since 1940
#1271 (84th percentile)
The name Kristie is the #1,271 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,388 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 83.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #696 (87.8% percentile) for all time with 38,344 births since 1940. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1971.
Kristie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Kristie is available in 82 out of the 83 years between 1940 and 2022 (82 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kristie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kristie reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 81.9% percentile (ranked #136) with 1,302 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 1,302 births per million (ranked 81.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Kristie reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #664) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kristie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kristie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kristie is pronounced as KRIH-stee, which has 2 syllables.
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