Christiana vs Christy
American parents have registered 100,536 Christys since 1880, against 10,938 Christianas. But in 2025 it was Christiana that was commoner, 58 babies to 34.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Christiana Christy
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 133 years in which either name was published, Christy for 96 years and Christiana for 37 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
- 1882–1894 Christiana ahead
- 1895 Christy ahead
- 1896–1898 Christiana ahead
- 1899–1900 Christy ahead
- 1902 Christiana ahead
- 1906–1908 Christy ahead
- 1909 Christiana ahead
- 1911 Christy ahead
- 1912 Christiana ahead
- 1913–2002 Christy ahead
- 2003–2025 Christiana ahead
Side by side
| Christiana | Christy | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 10,938 | 100,536 |
| Most in one year | 309 | 5,192 |
| Babies in 2025 | 58 | 34 |
| Estimated living today | 10,000 | 92,000 |
| Median age today | 27 | 49 |
| Peak year | 1996 | 1975 |
| Best rank | 699th girls | 53rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,895th | 4,172nd |
| First recorded | 1882 | 1886 |
| Girls / boys | 10,938 / 0 | 98,576 / 1,960 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Christys alive today are over 49; half the Christianas are over 27. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Christiana Florida (2.1×), Maryland (1.9×), California (1.8×)
- Christy Tennessee (2.5×), Alabama (2.0×), Kentucky (1.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Christiana | Christy |
|---|---|---|
| France | 785 | 570 |
| England and Wales | 571 | 518 |
| Scotland | 8 | 332 |
| Ireland | 11 | 86 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Christiana and Christy.