Chrissy is the English diminutive of Christine / Christina — from the Greek christianos (follower of Christ). *A top-200 US baby name from 1977 to 1981, popularized by Three's Company. Chrissy Teigen (born 1984) — American model and cookbook author of Thai-Norwegian-American heritage; Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Rookie of the Year (2010) and Issue cover star (2014). Her cookbook Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat (2016) was a New York Times bestseller for 86 weeks; her follow-ups have sold millions of copies. Married singer John Legend in 2013; their public chronicle of pregnancy loss (Jack, October 2020) was widely credited with opening American cultural conversation about miscarriage and stillbirth. Co-founder of Cravings by Chrissy Teigen kitchenware. Chrissy Snow — the lead character of ABC's Three's Company (1977-1981), played by Suzanne Somers. Chrissy Metz (This Is Us* — Kate Pearson). Chrissy Amphlett — Divinyls singer.
Featured throughout 1970s-2020s American culture.
Chrissy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chrissy reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.