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My sister-in-law is named Christine and her nickname is Chris or Chrissy. It just suits her so well and makes me think of her, and how sweet and lovely she is. So yes, I like it.

It's cute and easier to say than Christy. I've also seen Chrissy for Christopher but that seems like it's just for younger people.

Yuck! It's whiny and babyish.

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My favorite nickname for those names is Kitty.

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I have a great aunt Chrissie who was born a little over a century ago. It wasn’t short for anything though she was her parents last child as her father died in the same three month period as his daughter’s birth though I’m still waiting for the death certificate to show if it was before or after her birth. I also know a woman in her early 30s who goes by Chrissie and her full name is Christine.

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I have an older friend who had two aunts on her father’s side one known as Chrissie and one as Tina but it turns out that both women were named Christina. The family wanted to follow the traditional naming pattern and both grandmothers were Christina.

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I like Chrissie as a nickname but not as a full given name.

I hate it. It sounds whiny to me in a way that Christy/Christy and Chris don't. Maybe because of how it rhymes with Prissy.

It's nice as a nickname, but I personally prefer both Christina and Christine in their full forms!

I like it. I might be a bit biased though as my older sister often went by this growing up, except hers being spelled as Krissy, from Kristina. I don't care for it as a full name, but as a nn for those or other similar names, it definitely works.

I'm not keen on any "issy" names, though they do have a kind of appeal. They sort of give me an uncanny valley response, where I know they are supposed to be appealing and cute, but I feel a deep, instinctive revulsion towards them. Although, maybe my reaction can't be trusted, because I went through my entire childhood with an "issy" nickname I couldn't escape, and I haaaaaaaated it.

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I prefer Chrissie, I think it looks a bit better somehow.

Rhymes with cheesy, which is what I think of this name. I prefer Christy, and like it best as Kristy.

This is not a nn that ages very well, and frankly I think it's a shame to shorten Christina.
Chrissy reminds me of a bleach-blonde girl in too-tight short-shorts and jelly platform sandals and tacky eye makeup.

I like Chrissy.

Any name that ends with "ssy" automatically sounds whiny to me.

Nice, I know a few nn for Christina or Christine

I prefer Christy or Chris as nicknames. Chrissy is fine but not my style. It makes me think of a pram with a pink hood and fussy lace trim.

Deep in the 19th century branches of my family tree, Chrissy appears three times, all of them nns for Christiana. I don't much like any of the Chris- names, Christopher is probably the best of them, so I'd hope they'd have a nn but I'd rather it was Tina.