girls:
70.5k births since 1941
#467 (92nd percentile)
boys:
179 births since 1960
#4407 (4th percentile)
overall:
70.6k births since 1941
#863 (89th percentile)
The name Kristy is the #863 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 70,648 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 88.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #467 (91.8% percentile) for all time with 70,469 births since 1941. For boys, it ranks #4,407 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 179 births since 1960.
Kristy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for girls and 1960 for boys).
The name Kristy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kristy reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 93.5% percentile (ranked #50) with 3,243 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 3,243 births per million (ranked 93.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1981, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kristy ranks #927 for girls (2.1% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kristy reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #661) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kristy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kristy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kristy is pronounced as KRIH-stee, which has 2 syllables.
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