Christina
Feminine · “a Christian”
Christina is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 479,718 girls against 1,989 boys since 1880. See Christina as a boy name
One woman with this name wrote a carol that half the English-speaking world sings every December and a poem that scholars have been arguing about for a hundred and fifty years without agreeing what it is about. She published the second at thirty-one and the first was found among her papers.
How old is the name Christina?
Christina was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Christina alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 445,000 people named Christina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Christina most popular?
Christina peaked in 1975, reaching #12 nationally. Today it ranks #770, 758 places below that high. See the whole 1975 chart.
Where it comes from
From Christiana to Christina
The story of Christina
For the first three centuries that was a dangerous thing to be called. Carrying a name that announced the bearer's religion in an empire that periodically prosecuted people for it was not a neutral act — the accusation at trial was frequently just the name itself, and refusing to sacrifice was the offense. Names of this kind cluster in exactly the periods when persecution was least likely and thin out when it was worst, which is one of the few places where the naming record touches political history directly. A name can be a decision about how visible a family is willing to be.
Meaning
a Christian
A Latin adjective used as a name. It is a declaration rather than a description, which sets it apart from almost every other name of comparable age.
How the name formed
- Christiana
- Christina
- Christine
Related forms: Cristina · Cristina · Kristina · Christina
Pronouncing Christina
kris-TEE-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Italian and Spanish say the same with a crisper final vowel and no h in the spelling.
Nicknames for Christina
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 197816,367 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #12reached in 1975
- Change vs 2022
- −11.3%352 in 2025, from 397
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.
Christina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cristina in Italian — same name
- Cristina in Spanish — same name
- Kristina in Swedish — same name
- Christina in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Christinas among us
people named Christina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 4,566 born in 2025 was named Christina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Christina
- #770
- Christina on the 2025 chart
- #454
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Christina went to 352 girls in 2025, but Cristina, Kristina and Khristina are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 603, which makes it the 454th most-given girls’ name of the year — 316 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,665 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 4,566 for Christina itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jean test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Christina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jean climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jean's path sketches the road Christina is walking now.
Christina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Christina is headed
Christina should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Christina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Christina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is recognized across Europe with almost no change of spelling.
- Tina and Chris sit inside it as short forms with nothing in common.
- The meaning is clear and needs no etymology to explain.
- Its peak was large and recent enough to date the name to a decade.
- Christine and Kristina are both standard and get substituted constantly.
- The record holds a few boys as well, and the boy is much the smaller side.
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Feminine · #770 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Christinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 445,000 people named Christina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Christina?
- Christina is the most-used spelling in US records — 352 of the 603 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Cristina, Kristina and Khristina.
- How popular is the name Christina in 2025?
- Christina ranks #770 among US girl names in 2025, with 352 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Christina?
- About 1 in every 4,566 US girls born in 2025 was named Christina — 352 in all.
- Will my child share the name Christina with classmates?
- Christina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Christina
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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