Christy is a given name meaning graceful, beautiful, princess. The name Christie originated from Italy in 1222. Ireland found the name in 1345, and it took on other connotations, such as angel and lovely. It is also short for the Greek names Christos meaning "anointed one" and Christiana meaning "follower of Christ".

People with the given name Christy

• Christy Canyon
  Christy Canyon
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   (born 1966), American actress and radio personality
• Christy Clark
  Christy Clark
  Christina Joan "Christy" Clark, MLA is a Canadian politician, the 35th and current Premier of British Columbia, Canada...
  
   (born 1965), Canadian politician
• Christy Chung
  Christy Chung
  Christy Chung is Chinese-Canadian actress. She was born in Montreal to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother.Chung grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues...
  
   (born 1970), Canadian-Chinese actress
• Christy Gibson
  Christy Gibson
  Christy Gibson is a Dutch singer of mor lam and luk thung prayuk, which are traditional styles of music in Thailand.-Biography:Gibson's family moved to Thailand when she was six years old...
  
  , Dutch-Thai actress
• Christy Hemme
  Christy Hemme
  Christina Lee "Christy" Hemme is an American actress, singer, model, professional wrestling valet and former professional wrestler. Hemme is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, as a backstage interviewer and ring announcer.-Early life:Hemme was born in Poway, California, but she...
  
   (born 1980), American actress and professional wrestling valet
• Christy Martin (footballer)
  Christy Martin (footballer)
  Christy Martin is a former Irish footballer who played in the Scottish League with both Bo'ness and Falkirk. Martin was also a dual international and played for both Ireland teams - the IFA XI and the FAI XI.-Club career:...
  
  , a former Irish footballer
• Christy Martin (boxer) (born 1968), American boxer
• Christy Mathewson
  Christy Mathewson
  Christopher "Christy" Mathewson , nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", or "Matty", was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire career in what is known as the dead-ball era...
  
   (1880 - 1925), American baseball player
• Christy Mihos
  Christy Mihos
  Christy P. Mihos is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was an Independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 2006 and ran again as a Republican in the 2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial election...
  
  former Independent candidate for the Massachusetts gubernatorial election 2006
• Christy Moore
  Christy Moore
  Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is a popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts...
  
   (born 1945), Irish folk singer-songwriter
• Christy O'Connor Snr
  Christy O'Connor Snr
  Christy O'Connor is a former Irish professional golferO'Connor was born in Knocknacarra, Galway. He turned professional in 1946. Throughout the 1960s he won at least one professional event during each year on the British Tour, a level of consistent success matched by very few other players...
  
   (born 1924), Irish golfer
• Christy O'Connor Jnr
  Christy O'Connor Jnr
  Christy O'Connor Jnr is an Irish golfer. He is known as "Junior" because he is the nephew of another leading Irish golfer Christy O'Connor.O'Connor was born in Galway. He turned professional in 1967...
  
   (born 1948), nephew of Christy Snr, Irish golfer
• Christy Ring
  Christy Ring
  Nicholas Christopher Michael Ring , better known as Christy Ring, was a famous Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with the Glen Rovers club from 1941 until 1967 and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1939 until 1963. Ring is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in...
  
   (1920 - 1979), Irish hurler
• Christy Carlson Romano
  Christy Carlson Romano
  Christy Carlson Romano is an American stage and film actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the sitcom Even Stevens and the animated series Kim Possible, in which she is the voice of the title character, as well as the voice of Yuffie Kisaragi in Kingdom Hearts and Final...
  
   (born 1984), American actress
• Christy Turlington
  Christy Turlington
  Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped...
  
  (born 1969), American supermodel