# Kristy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kristy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 70,703 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 179 / 70,524 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 255, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 69 | 2,604 |
| 2012 | 91 | 2,109 |
| 2013 | 88 | 2,147 |
| 2014 | 79 | 2,337 |
| 2015 | 50 | 3,280 |
| 2016 | 61 | 2,816 |
| 2017 | 50 | 3,225 |
| 2018 | 46 | 3,422 |
| 2019 | 39 | 3,828 |
| 2020 | 48 | 3,253 |
| 2021 | 16 | 7,123 |
| 2022 | 20 | 6,114 |
| 2023 | 25 | 5,192 |
| 2024 | 27 | 4,966 |
| 2025 | 25 | 5,166 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | 4,687 |
| 1974 | 11 | 3,236 |
| 1975 | 7 | 4,581 |
| 1976 | 11 | 3,384 |
| 1977 | 18 | 2,517 |
| 1978 | 20 | 2,334 |
| 1979 | 13 | 3,268 |
| 1980 | 16 | 2,904 |
| 1981 | 11 | 3,746 |
| 1982 | 11 | 3,826 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,889 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,327 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,620 |
| 1988 | 7 | 6,155 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,626 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 25 | 876 |
| 2001 | 13 | 1,439 |
| 2002 | 7 | 2,301 |
| 2003 | 8 | 2,191 |
| 2004 | 5 | 3,197 |
| 2005 | 8 | 2,438 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2,509 |
| 2007 | 6 | 3,218 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |

## People named Kristy

- Kristy Swanson, American actress
- Kristy McNichol, American actress
- Kristy Wu, American actress
- Kristy Wallace, Australian basketball player (born 1996)
- Kristy Lee Cook, American musician
- Poison Ivy, American guitarist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.