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Christina vs Christinia

American parents have registered 481,707 Christinas since 1880, against 1,283 Christinias. Christina is still ahead, with 352 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Christina against Christinia, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Christina Christinia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Christina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1926, when Christina had 349 and Christinia had 10.

Side by side

  Christina Christinia
Total US births 481,7071,283
Most in one year 16,68661
Babies in 2025 352under 5
Estimated living today 443,0001,100
Median age today 4347
Peak year 19851979
Best rank 12th girls1,770th girls
Rank in 2025 770thunranked
First recorded 18801912
Girls / boys 479,718 / 1,9891,283 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Christinias alive today are over 47; half the Christinas are over 43. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Christina and Christinia.