Christin
Feminine · “a Christian”
Christin is given to both — 11,199 girls and 1,018 boys since 1880. See Christin as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Christin drops a letter that marks nothing. The final e on Christine is a French convention for a feminine form, silent in French and inert in English, and taking it off changes the name in no way that any listener could detect — which is exactly why American families did it.
How old is the name Christin?
Christin first appears in US birth records in 1931 — 94 years ago. The typical Christin alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 11,000 people named Christin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Christin most popular?
Christin peaked in 1989, reaching #286 nationally. See the whole 1989 chart.
Where it comes from
From a Greek word meaning anointed to Christin
The story of Christin
Christine Jorgensen came back from Denmark in the early 1950s and found the American press waiting. She had gone for surgery and hormone treatment as a private matter; a leaked letter turned it into the front page of a New York newspaper, and she spent the rest of her life as the most famous transgender woman in the country. What is striking in the record is how she handled it — an army veteran with a photographer's training who gave interviews with complete composure, took a nightclub act on tour because that was the work available, and declined to be either apologetic or a symbol. She chose the name herself.
Meaning
a Christian
The name is the feminine of Christian, from a Greek word meaning anointed, and it entered English from French. The dropped letter is one of a very small number of alterations available to somebody who wants a familiar name to look like their own: the stressed syllable cannot be touched, the consonants are fixed, and the silent letters at the edges are the only place with any give.
How the name formed
- a Greek word meaning anointed
- Christian and its French feminine Christine
- the name reaches English use in the Middle Ages
- American families drop the silent final letter
- an American peak at the end of the 1980s
Related forms: Christine · Christin · Kristin
Pronouncing Christin
kris-TEEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back in American use. German gives it the same spelling and a different stress, KRIS-tin, which is a different name in the ear.
Nicknames for Christin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1931
- Most girls named
- 1989926 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #286reached in 1989
- Change vs 2022
- −54.5%5 in 2024, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Christin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Christine in French — spelling variant
- Christin in German — same name
- Kristin in Swedish — spelling variant
Christins among us
people named Christin are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Christin has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Chris, Tina and Kit are all available and belong to different registers.
- The name is established across the whole of Europe and needs no explanation.
- The spelling is genuinely rare in America while the name is universal.
- Christine and Kristin are both commoner and will be substituted constantly.
- The German reading of the same spelling puts the stress in a different place.
- It is closely dated to the 1980s in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Christins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,000 people named Christin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Christin in 2025?
- Christin is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Christin with classmates?
- Christin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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