Christie

Where Christie comes from

The dictionaries list Christie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Christine and of its variant forms; fairly common as a formal female given name in the 20th century — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1975
    Peak, #96
    3,028 babies named Christie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #181.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Christine and of its variant forms; fairly common as a formal female given name in the 20th century.
  • A mostly Scottish and Irish diminutive of the male given name Christopher.
Namesakes

No widely known Christie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.