Cristina
Feminine · “a Christian”
Cristina is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 52,428 girls against 270 boys since 1880.
Cristina is the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese spelling — the h dropped, because none of those languages uses it in this word. It is the same name as Christina, written the way the Romance languages write it.
How old is the name Cristina?
Cristina first appears in US birth records in 1906 — 119 years ago. The typical Cristina alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 50,000 people named Cristina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cristina most popular?
Cristina peaked in 1986, reaching #163 nationally. Today it ranks #1622, 1,459 places below that high. See the whole 1986 chart.
Where it comes from
From christos to Cristina
The story of Cristina
Christina spread through medieval Europe as a devotional name and every language wrote it its own way — Christine in France, Kristina in Sweden, Cristina in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Spanish and Italian emigration brought Cristina to America, where it rose alongside the other spellings from the 1960s and peaked in the mid-1980s.
Meaning
a Christian, a follower of Christ
From the Latin Christiana, feminine of Christianus. The root is the Greek christos, 'anointed', itself the translation of the Hebrew title messiah. Italian, Spanish and Portuguese all dropped the h from the Latin spelling, which is why the continental form looks different.
How the name formed
- christos
- Christiana
- Cristina
Related forms: Cristina · Cristina · Cristina · Christina
Pronouncing Cristina
kris-TEE-nuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Italian, Spanish and Portuguese all say it the same way.
Nicknames for Cristina
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
- 1906
- Most girls named
- 19891,733 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #163reached in 1986
- Change vs 2023
- −21.5%128 in 2025, from 163
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.
Cristina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cristina in Italian — same name
- Cristina in Spanish — same name
- Cristina in Portuguese — same name
- Christina in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Cristinas among us
people named Cristina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,557 born in 2025 was named Cristina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cristina
- #1622
- Cristina on the 2025 chart
- #454
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cristina went to 128 girls in 2025, but Christina, 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 — 1,168 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,665 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,557 for Cristina 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 Jacquelyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cristina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacquelyn climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacquelyn's path sketches the road Cristina is walking now.
Cristina 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 Cristina is headed
Cristina 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.
Cristina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cristina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is the standard spelling across three major Romance languages.
- Cris and Tina are two short forms at completely different registers.
- It sits inside one of the largest name families in Europe.
- Christina with the h is commoner in English and will often be assumed.
- It sits inside a very crowded family of near-identical names.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cristinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 50,000 people named Cristina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cristina?
- Cristina is one of 4 recorded spellings. Christina is the more common one — 352 births in 2025 against 128 for Cristina.
- How popular is the name Cristina in 2025?
- Cristina ranks #1622 among US girl names in 2025, with 128 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cristina?
- About 1 in every 12,557 US girls born in 2025 was named Cristina — 128 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cristina with classmates?
- Cristina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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