Kristine
Feminine · “a Christian”
Kristine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 84,329 girls against 185 boys since 1880.
Kristine is the K spelling with the French ending — northern European at the front, Latin at the back. It is the longest of the family's common forms and the one that reads most formally.
How old is the name Kristine?
Kristine first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Kristine alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 77,000 people named Kristine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kristine most popular?
Kristine peaked in 1966, reaching #104 nationally. Today it ranks #3211, 3,107 places below that high. See the whole 1966 chart.
Where it comes from
From christos to Kristine
The story of Kristine
Christina spread across medieval Europe and split into national forms: Christine in France, Kristina in Sweden, Kirsten in Denmark, Kristin in Norway. English borrowed several of them at once and mid-century America mixed the spellings freely — the K of the north with the -ine of France, which no single European language uses together. Kristine peaked in America in the mid-1960s, at the start of the long Krist- wave.
Meaning
a Christian, a follower of Christ
From the Latin Christiana through Christine, feminine of Christianus. The Greek christos, 'anointed', is the root, and it was itself the translation of the Hebrew title messiah, so the name reaches back through two languages before it reaches a meaning.
How the name formed
- christos
- Christiana
- Christine
- Kristine
Related forms: Christine · Kristin · Kristina · Christiane
Pronouncing Kristine
kris-TEEN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Kristin is stressed on the first, which is the clearest audible difference between the two.
Nicknames for Kristine
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
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 19703,532 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #104reached in 1966
- Change vs 2023
- +2.1%49 in 2025, from 48
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.
Kristine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Christine in French — spelling variant
- Kristin in Norwegian — related form
- Kristina in Swedish — related form
- Christiane in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Ohio, Texas.
Kristines among us
people named Kristine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 32,801 born in 2025 was named Kristine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kristine
- #3211
- Kristine on the 2025 chart
- #737
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kristine went to 49 girls in 2025, but Christine 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 — 2,474 places above the chart.
- Christine176
- Kristine49
About 1 girl in 7,143 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,801 for Kristine 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 Alberta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kristine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alberta climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alberta's path sketches the road Kristine is walking now.
Kristine 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 Kristine is headed
Kristine should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Kristine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kristine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It reads as the formal member of a family full of short forms.
- Every European language has a sibling form, so relatives abroad have a version of it.
- The end stress distinguishes it clearly from Kristin and Kristen in speech.
- Christine is far commoner and will be assumed by anyone writing the name down.
- The K-plus-ine combination is an American blend rather than a European spelling.
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Feminine · #3211 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kristines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 77,000 people named Kristine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kristine?
- Kristine is one of 2 recorded spellings. Christine is the more common one — 176 births in 2025 against 49 for Kristine.
- How popular is the name Kristine in 2025?
- Kristine ranks #3211 among US girl names in 2025, with 49 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kristine?
- About 1 in every 32,801 US girls born in 2025 was named Kristine — 49 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kristine with classmates?
- Kristine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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