Khristina
Feminine · “a Christian”
Khristina is Christina transliterated rather than respelled, and there is a real difference. The kh at the front is the standard way of romanizing the Cyrillic letter kha, so Khristina is what the Russian and Ukrainian forms of the name look like when they are written in the Latin alphabet. It is a spelling with a system behind it rather than a preference.
How old is the name Khristina?
Khristina first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Khristina alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 1,200 people named Khristina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khristina most popular?
Khristina peaked in 1973, reaching #1857 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 13,085 places below that high. See the whole 1973 chart.
Where it comes from
From christos to Khristina
The story of Khristina
Christina spread through medieval Europe on the strength of an early martyr's legend and became a royal name in Scandinavia and a common one everywhere else. The eastern churches received it in Greek and passed it into Slavic languages, where the opening consonant is the throaty kh rather than the English k — a genuine difference in sound, not just in spelling. When those names are written in English, kh is the convention that marks it. American records therefore contain Khristina from two quite separate sources: families transliterating a Slavic name, and families respelling an English one for the look of it.
Meaning
a Christian; one who belongs to Christ
Latin Christiana means a Christian woman, and it is built on Christus, which is itself Greek: christos, the anointed one, a direct translation of the Hebrew mashiach. So the name is a translation of a translation, and every link in the chain is documented. The kh spelling does not alter any of it. In Russian and Ukrainian the same name is Khristina or Khrystyna, and the initial letter is the one English has no single character for.
How the name formed
- christos
- Christiana
- Christina
- Khristina
Related forms: Христина · Khrystyna · Christina · Kristina · Cristina
Pronouncing Khristina
kris-TEE-nuh
kris-TEE-nuh in English, three syllables, stress in the middle, the h silent. In Russian and Ukrainian the first consonant is a rasp made at the back of the throat rather than a plain k, and the stress moves — khris-TEE-na, with a fuller final vowel.
Nicknames for Khristina
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
- 1962
- Most girls named
- 197948 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1857reached in 1973
- Change vs 2024
- −44.4%5 in 2025, from 9
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.
Khristina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Христина in Russian — transliteration
- Khrystyna in Ukrainian — same name
- Christina in Greek — same name
- Kristina in Swedish — same name
- Cristina in Spanish — same name
Khristinas among us
people named Khristina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Khristina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Khristina
- #14942
- Khristina on the 2025 chart
- #454
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Khristina went to 5 girls in 2025, but Christina, Cristina and Kristina 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 — 14,488 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,665 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Khristina 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 Sharlotte test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khristina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharlotte climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharlotte's path sketches the road Khristina is walking now.
Khristina 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
Khristina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khristina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spelling is a standard transliteration rather than an invention, which gives it a defensible reason to exist.
- Kristy and Tina are both waiting inside it and both are fully established.
- The name is recognized in every European language and needs no translation anywhere.
- In English the h is silent, so the spelling adds a letter and no information for most readers.
- Christina, Kristina and Cristina are all far more common, and this version will be rewritten as one of them.
- The kh implies a Slavic origin, which is right for some families carrying it and misleading for others.
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Frequently asked
- How many Khristinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Khristina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Khristina?
- Khristina is one of 4 recorded spellings. Christina is the more common one — 352 births in 2025 against 5 for Khristina.
- How popular is the name Khristina in 2025?
- Khristina ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khristina?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Khristina — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khristina with classmates?
- Khristina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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