Christina
Masculine · “a Christian”
Christina is given to girls far more often — 479,718 girls against 1,989 boys since 1880. See Christina as a girl 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 first appears in US birth records in 1929 — 96 years ago. The typical Christina alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 1,800 people named Christina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Christina most popular?
Christina peaked in 1989, reaching #886 nationally. See the whole 1989 chart.
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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
- 1929
- Most boys named
- 1989129 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #886reached in 1989
- Change vs 2007
- −14.3%6 in 2012, from 7
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
Christinas among us
people named Christina 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
Christina sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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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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 1,800 people named Christina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Christina in 2025?
- Christina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Christina with classmates?
- Christina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More C names
The most-given names starting with C, all years combined.
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