Kristi
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Estonia (Statistics Estonia): listed as female
- Albania (INSTAT Albania): listed as male
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈkɹɪsti/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Kristi is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: It's the Yoruba translation of Christ. Kristi is also written Кристи in Cyrillic, קריסטי in Hebrew and Χριστη in Greek.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 260few records(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 1.5K
- NONorway1 in 9.9K
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 Kristi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #644 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 524 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 264 (inferred from the name graph)
91,660 named Christy, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kristi in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kristy in AU Australia, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more, Christi in US United States and Christie in NG Nigeria.
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.
How to pronounce Kristi
- English:/ˈkɹɪsti/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)It's the Yoruba translation of Christ
Cited for this meaning 3
- YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kristi, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kristi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #259 | 91,660as Christy | 1 in 3.6K | 91K | Christi | 524 |
| AU Australia | #192 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 92 | Kristy | 233 |
| GB United Kingdom | #398 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 5 | Kristy | 262 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Christie | 44 |
| CA Canada | #271 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 1 | Kristy | 213 |
| EE Estonia | #536 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 264 | 3.2K | Kristi | 48 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,041 | 1 in 1.5K | 1.8K | Kristy | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | #380 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 16 | Kristy | 116 |
91,660 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling christy. 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); 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)Kristi 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 Yoruba, It's the Yoruba translation of Christ
as a wordYorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
In Latvian, nominative plural of krists
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian, genitive of Kristus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, to fall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Kristi Noemb. 1971USAmerican politician (born 1971)
- Noël Wellsb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Beabadoobeb. 2000PHnot in their usual nameFilipino singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kristi mean, and where does it come from?
- It's the Yoruba translation of Christ Recorded by YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Kristi a male or female name?
- Kristi is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Estonia (Statistics Estonia): listed as female; Albania (INSTAT Albania): listed as male; Norway (SSB): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What are other forms of the name Kristi?
- In the etymology graph, Chris, Christina and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kristina and Krystina.
- How do you pronounce Kristi?
- In English /ˈkɹɪsti/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Kristi?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 92 thousand people named Christy, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Australia, United Kingdom, Nigeria and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kristi?
- In Albania, the national register counted 2,041 people named Kristi, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Kristi compared with other names?
- In the United States, Kristi is the 259th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kristi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristiThe 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, “Kristi” — ranked 581st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.