Christine
Feminine · “a Christian”
Christine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 586,465 girls against 2,030 boys since 1880. See Christine as a boy name
The ch at the front of this name is holding a Greek letter that English has no sound for. Chi was an aspirated k — a k with a breath after it — and neither Latin nor English could produce it, so both wrote two letters and said one. The spelling is a fossil of a sound nobody in the language has ever made.
How old is the name Christine?
Christine was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Christine alive today was born around 1966, making them about 59 years old. About 469,000 people named Christine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Christine most popular?
Christine peaked in 1967, reaching #14 nationally. Today it ranks #1272, 1,258 places below that high. See the whole 1967 chart.
Where it comes from
From Christiana to Christine
The story of Christine
One of the saints who carried it is remembered almost entirely for being extraordinary. The account of her life, written by a friar within decades of her death, has her apparently dying in her twenties, sitting up during her own funeral mass, rising to the rafters because she could not bear the smell of sin on the people below, and afterwards living in trees, in ovens and in rivers. Her contemporaries were divided between thinking her holy and thinking her mad, and the friar who wrote it down was clearly aware of the problem. She has been known ever since by an epithet that simply means the astonishing one.
Meaning
a Christian
From a Latin adjective built on a Greek title. The sense is not in dispute; the name is a statement of allegiance rather than a description of a person, which is unusual among names of its age.
How the name formed
- Christiana
- Christina
- Christine
Related forms: Christine · Christine · Cristina · Kristina
Pronouncing Christine
kris-TEEN
Two syllables with the weight at the back, as the French ending requires. German fronts the stress and adds a third syllable, saying kris-TEE-nuh.
Nicknames for Christine
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
- 196916,752 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #14reached in 1967
- Change vs 2022
- −19.6%176 in 2025, from 219
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.
Christine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Christine in French — same name
- Christine in German — same name
- Cristina in Italian — same name
- Kristina in Swedish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Christines among us
people named Christine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 9,132 born in 2025 was named Christine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Christine
- #1272
- Christine on the 2025 chart
- #737
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Christine went to 176 girls in 2025, but Kristine is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 225, which makes it the 737th most-given girls’ name of the year — 535 places above the chart.
- Christine176
- Kristine49
About 1 girl in 7,143 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 9,132 for Christine 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 Rose test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Christine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rose climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rose's path sketches the road Christine is walking now.
Christine 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 Christine is headed
Christine should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Christine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Christine 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.
- Chris and Tina sit inside it as short forms with nothing in common.
- The meaning is clear and needs no etymology to explain.
- Its peak was very large and very concentrated, which dates the name clearly.
- Christina and Kristine are both standard and get substituted.
- The record holds a few boys as well, and the boy is much the smaller side.
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Frequently asked
- How many Christines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 469,000 people named Christine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Christine?
- Christine is the most-used spelling in US records — 176 of the 225 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kristine.
- How popular is the name Christine in 2025?
- Christine ranks #1272 among US girl names in 2025, with 176 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Christine?
- About 1 in every 9,132 US girls born in 2025 was named Christine — 176 in all.
- Will my child share the name Christine with classmates?
- Christine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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