Kristy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A variant of Christie, a diminutive of Christina and related female names
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kristy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kristy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #644 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 524 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kristi in EE Estonia, NL Netherlands and Christi in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A variant of Christie, a diminutive of Christina and related female names.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kristy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Kristy | 30 |
| US United States | #259 | 91,660as Christy | 1 in 3.6K | 91K | Christi | 524 |
| AU Australia | #192 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 92 | Kristy | 233 |
| GB United Kingdom | #398 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 5 | Kristy | 262 |
| CA Canada | #271 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 1 | Kristy | 213 |
| EE Estonia | #536 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 496 | 3.2K | Kristi | 48 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,041as Kristi | 1 in 1.5K | 1.8K | Kristy | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | #380 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 16 | Kristy | 116 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 540 | 1 in 32K | 540 | Kristi | 64 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kristy is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, island, Greece
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Krfti [Crete]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Variant spelling of Kristie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Origin unidentified.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kristy Pigeonb. 1950USUS tennis player
- Poison Ivyb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican guitarist
- Kristy McNicholb. 1962USAmerican actress
- Kristy Chub. 1965TWTaiwanese artist
- Kristy Swansonb. 1969USAmerican actress
- 楊恭如b. 1974CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Kristy Sargeantb. 1974CAfigure skater
- Kristy Hinzeb. 1979AUAustralian model, actress and television host
- Kristy Wub. 1982USAmerican actress
- Kristy Wallaceb. 1996AUAustralian basketball player (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63K | #779 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 540 | #1,913 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 479 | #3,291 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1992 | 92 | #97 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1992 | 92 | #97 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 73 | #779 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1991 | 51 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 29 | #1,398 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 25 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1997 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 7 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2021 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kristy mean, and where does it come from?
- A variant of Christie, a diminutive of Christina and related female names. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kristy?
- In the etymology graph, Chris, Tina and Kristen are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Christina and Kristina.
- In which country does Kristy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 313 thousand people named Kristy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristy.
- How common is the name Kristy?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 540 people named Kristy, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Kristy compared with other names?
- In Australia, Kristy is the 192nd most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
- Is Kristy a male or female name?
- Kristy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What do you want to know about Kristy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kristy” — the 192nd most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.