Kristina
Feminine · “a Christian”
Kristina is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 136,765 girls against 353 boys since 1880.
Kristina is the Swedish form, and Sweden gave it a queen who abdicated at twenty-eight, converted to Catholicism, moved to Rome and is one of only a handful of women buried in St Peter's.
How old is the name Kristina?
Kristina first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Kristina alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 131,000 people named Kristina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kristina most popular?
Kristina peaked in 1985, reaching #57 nationally. Today it ranks #1721, 1,664 places below that high. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
From christos to Kristina
The story of Kristina
Christina spread across medieval Europe as a devotional name and took hold particularly firmly in Scandinavia, where the K spelling is standard. Queen Christina of Sweden made it internationally visible in the seventeenth century. American families borrowed the northern European forms heavily from the 1960s, and Kristina rose with Kristin, Kristen and Kirsten, peaking in the late 1980s.
Meaning
a Christian, a follower of Christ
From the Latin Christiana, feminine of Christianus. The root is the Greek christos, 'anointed', which entered Greek as the translation of the Hebrew title messiah, so the name passes through two languages before it reaches a meaning.
How the name formed
- christos
- Christiana
- Kristina
Related forms: Kristina · Kristýna · Kristina · Christina
Pronouncing Kristina
kris-TEE-nuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Swedish and Russian say it the same way.
Nicknames for Kristina
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 19875,018 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #57reached in 1985
- Change vs 2023
- −12.6%118 in 2025, from 135
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.
Kristina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kristina in Swedish — same name
- Kristýna in Czech — related form
- Kristina in Russian — same name
- Christina in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Kristinas among us
people named Kristina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,621 born in 2025 was named Kristina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kristina
- #1721
- Kristina on the 2025 chart
- #454
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kristina went to 118 girls in 2025, but Christina, Cristina 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 — 1,267 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,665 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 13,621 for Kristina 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 Ellen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kristina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ellen climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ellen's path sketches the road Kristina is walking now.
Kristina is coming down from a big peak (#57 in 1985). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kristina is headed
Kristina is easing off slowly — about 21% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Kristina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kristina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuine Scandinavian and Slavic name with a documented royal bearer.
- It is spelled identically in Swedish and Russian, so it travels across a very wide area.
- Kris and Tina are two short forms at completely different registers.
- Christina with a C is commoner in American records and the two are easily confused.
- It sits inside a very crowded family of near-identical names.
- It is closely dated to the 1980s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kristinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 131,000 people named Kristina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kristina?
- Kristina is one of 4 recorded spellings. Christina is the more common one — 352 births in 2025 against 118 for Kristina.
- How popular is the name Kristina in 2025?
- Kristina ranks #1721 among US girl names in 2025, with 118 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kristina?
- About 1 in every 13,621 US girls born in 2025 was named Kristina — 118 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kristina with classmates?
- Kristina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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