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Christina vs Kristyna

American parents have registered 481,707 Christinas since 1880, against 722 Kristynas. Christina is still ahead, with 352 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Christina Kristyna

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 2016, when Christina had 850 and Kristyna had 10.

Side by side

  Christina Kristyna
Total US births 481,707722
Most in one year 16,68642
Babies in 2025 352under 5
Estimated living today 443,000700
Median age today 4335
Peak year 19851989
Best rank 12th girls2,658th girls
Rank in 2025 770thunranked
First recorded 18801969
Girls / boys 479,718 / 1,989722 / 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 Christinas alive today are over 43; half the Kristynas are over 35. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Christina Kristyna
France 7,85510
England and Wales 3,20445
Poland 734 Kristýna

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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