Christy

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Christy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Christy: Recorded since 1994, it reached #210 in 1997, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
73times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#210highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#736
1997	#789
1998	#737
1999	#1473
2000	#993
2001	#962
2002	#1928
2003	#1628
2004	#1252
2005	#2682
2006	#2781
2007	#1741
2008	#2292
2009	#3422
2010	#2843
2011	#5785
2012	#3285
2014	#3514
2015	#4736
2016	#2547
2017	#5765

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 20 of the 32 years from 1994 to 2025.

In 2005: #689 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2682 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1994–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1994
First recorded at #299 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1994 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2023
Highest recorded position: #210 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Christy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 23 ranked years and 245 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1994.

Christy across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Christy's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#299 (1994)	#299 (1994)	#829 (2025)	20 of 32	83 (1994–2025)	6 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#853 (1996)	#694 (1997)	#4270 (2024)	23 of 29	245 (1996–2024)	23 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#210 (1997)	#210 (1997)	#395 (2023)	8 of 27	32 (1997–2023)	6 (1997)
England and Wales · Girls	#736 (1996)	#736 (1996)	#5765 (2017)	21 of 22	270 (1996–2017)	31 (1996)

Christy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Christy in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	78	4 of 10	20
2000sbusiest	123	10 of 10	12
2010s	26	5 of 10	5
2020s	18	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Christy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1994 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #210 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Christy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1401	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1160	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#962	22	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1135	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#993	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1330	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#840	19	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#737	31	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#813	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#789	29	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#694	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#853	17	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#303	5	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#291	5	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#210	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#403	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#439	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#299	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1994 and 2025, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #210, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 3 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Chrystal · #476, 21y
Chukwuebuka · #500, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rafe · #210, 29y
Cadan · #209, 28y
Emre · #209, 33y
Fionnan · #211, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Natan · #210, 27y
Rafe · #210, 29y
Bertie · #211, 30y
Cadan · #209, 28y

Christy was ranked #210 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Christy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Christy without appearing here.

Christy moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2547 and #5785.
Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #3514 and #4684.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #4991.

Moved ahead of Christy

Jesse Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2843 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #1489.
Yvonne Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2547 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2090.
Diane Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2547 and #3609 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2201.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2547 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Christy

Alex Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 while Alex went from #108 to #37.
Ben Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 while Ben went from #99 to #40.
Callum Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 while Callum went from #225 to #49.
Darragh Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 while Darragh went from #38 to #19.

Moved the same way as Christy

Adrian Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 and Adrian from #81 to #348.
Denis Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 and Denis from #90 to #232.
Dylan Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 and Dylan from #23 to #69.
Edward Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Christy went from #299 to #829 and Edward from #64 to #125.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1994 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #210 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Christy

Christy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Christy across 4 official records

Christy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Christy appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Christy at a glance

Christy across 4 official records

Christy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Christy appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Christy

Christy and the names beside it

Christy moved ahead of

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