Feminine dossier · first seen 1941

Kristy

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Kristy
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.5% from peak

Peak era

1978

Peak rank proxy

5,332

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen X

1941Peak 19782024

Peak year

1978

Decline from peak

99.5%

2024

All-time

70,496

Kristy once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1978, when 5,332 girls were named Kristy.

In 2024, only 27 girls were given the name.

Down 99.5% from its peak.

All told, about 70,496 Americans have been named Kristy and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1941.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.5% from peak

19785,332 girls named Kristy

202427 girls named Kristy

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