Khristine
Feminine · “A spelling of Christine”
Khristine is Christine with a Greek-looking Kh, a mid-century spelling of one of the classic names of Christian Europe. In fiction the name has belonged to a soprano taught by a ghost and to a car that kills.
How old is the name Khristine?
Khristine first appears in US birth records in 1949 — 76 years ago. The typical Khristine alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 600 people named Khristine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khristine most popular?
Khristine peaked in 1968, reaching #2205 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From christianus to Khristine
The story of Khristine
In Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, Christine Daaé is a young Swedish soprano at the Paris Opéra who is taught to sing by an unseen voice, the Phantom who lives beneath the building; the story became a silent film and, much later, one of the longest-running musicals in history. In 1983 Stephen King published Christine, about a jealous, possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury that its owner restores and names. Khristine, with its Kh, was a spelling used by American families in the middle of the century.
Meaning
A spelling of Christine, 'follower of Christ'
Christine is the French form of Christina, from Latin christianus. The Kh imitates the Greek letter chi.
How the name formed
- christianus
- Christina
- Christine
- Khristine
Related forms: Christine · Kristin · Christina
Pronouncing Khristine
kris-TEEN
Two syllables with the stress on the second, like Christine.
Nicknames for Khristine
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
- 1949
- Most girls named
- 197031 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2205reached in 1968
- Change vs 2008
- −14.3%6 in 2017, 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.
Khristine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Christine in French — spelling variant
- Kristin in Swedish — same name
- Christina in Greek — related form
Khristines among us
people named Khristine 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
Khristine 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
- Sounds exactly like Christine, a name everyone knows.
- Comes with Chris and Tina as ready short forms.
- Distinct on paper.
- Almost everyone will write Christine.
- The Kh looks unusual and invites a guttural pronunciation.
- Stephen King's car is a well-known association.
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- How many Khristines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Khristine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Khristine in 2025?
- Khristine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Khristine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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