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Kristie

Gender
Girl
Say it
KRIS-tee
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Kristie is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “follower of Christ”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Kristie mean?

Greek: pet form of Kristina, Kristen and similar names

“follower of Christ”

A pet form of Kristina, Kristen and Christine, all from Greek christianos, a Christian.

Is Kristie a girl's or a boy's name?

Kristie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kristie in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1997, with 41 girls.

Half of all the girls named Kristie in the UK since 1996 were born between 1997 and 2004. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 41 in 19972018
Kristie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20182#7,433
20170–
20163#6,009
20151#7,629
20143#5,920
20130–
20121#7,881
20110–
20105#4,220
20097#3,201
200810#2,454
20076#3,396
20061#6,685
20056#3,133
200410#2,064
20038#2,320
20022#5,472
200113#1,542
20007#2,304
199919#1,149
199826#922
199741#683
199640#662

How popular is Kristie in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,913th among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Kristie, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1974, with 2,039 girls. It first appears in the records in 1940.

Half of all the girls named Kristie in the US since 1880 were born between 1970 and 1982, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 115 girls in the US were given Kristie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,538, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.

1940Busiest: 2,039 in 19742025
Kristie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20247#12,156
20230–
20229#10,377
20219#10,287
20209#10,245
201916#7,021
201811#9,146
201722#5,657
201622#5,794
201526#5,125
201419#6,449
201321#6,014
201231#4,599
201130#4,680
201025#5,412
200937#4,106
200842#3,778
200732#4,566
200651#3,223
200548#3,208
200448#3,176
200370#2,365
200260#2,579
200168#2,327
200089#1,896
1999136#1,319
1998140#1,283
1997184#1,035
1996169#1,091
1995241#815
1994270#762
1993416#573
1992513#481
1991635#401
1990696#376
1989635#392
1988743#331
1987687#349
1986745#323
1985783#308
1984767#308
1983791#294
1982938#264
1981972#254
19801,083#237
19791,406#188
19781,620#167
19771,754#157
19761,624#158
19751,817#147
19742,039#138
19731,708#161
19721,738#168
19711,868#165
19701,792#181
19691,311#230
1968989#275
1967672#344
1966503#414
1965433#459
1964402#484
1963350#519
1962323#544
1961376#504
1960322#537
1959304#559
1958351#515
1957314#540
1956294#545
1955330#509
1954191#672
1953212#609
1952236#564
1951232#556
1950118#797
1949132#744
194895#889
194769#1,067
194624#1,859
194512#2,597
194412#2,624
194317#2,150
194211#2,815
19410–
19406#3,861

Names like Kristie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kristie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kristie, updated 20 October 2026.