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The first name 
Chrissy

Chrissy is a female first name.

When two girls called Chrissy meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Chrissy is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Chrissy. In the SmartGenius ranking, Chrissy is #3,769 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Chrissy.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Chrissy

Chrissy -
keeping with the times

Chrissy is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Chrissy - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 369 in 1978. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Chrissy really in tune with her generation.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Chrissy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Chrissy in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

24 babies were named Chrissy in 2022 - that's 1 in 6,176,329 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Chrissy ranked 4,671 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Chrissy -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Chrissy, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 34 states are home to women and girls named Chrissy. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Chrissy living in one state or another. If your name is Chrissy and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Louisiana, which has the most people named Chrissy relative to the population, you still have to ask 23,439 women and girls their names before you hear Chrissy as an answer just once.

Chrissy has 7 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With seven letters, the name Chrissy has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Chrissy

If your name is Chrissy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Chrissy

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Chrissy, you can simply say:

Cat

Hat

Rocket

Igloo

Sun

Sun

Yoyo

This is how the name Chrissy is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Chrissy in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Chrissy

Chrissy

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Chrissy

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Chrissy is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
H
R
I
S
S
Y

Have you ever waved the name Chrissy

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
H
R
I
S
S
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Chrissy sounds like this: