Christina
The girl's name Christina has been in the national records since 1880, with 481,707 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 770th. About 443,000 Christinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Christina boys named Christina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 481,707
- Estimated living today
- 443,000
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1985
- Best rank
- 12th
- Rank in 2025
- 770th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 479,718 / 1,989
How old the living Christinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 481,707 babies given the name since 1880, about 443,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 15,000 of them are children and 24,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Name of an early martyr, shortened from Latin Chrīstiāna (“Christian (woman)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Christinas
- Christina Ricci (born 1980)American actress
- Christina of Sweden (1626–1689)Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654
- Christina Applegate (born 1971)American actress
- Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)English poet
- Christina Koch (born 1979)American astronaut
- Christina Hendricks (born 1975)British-American actress
- Christina Grimmie (1994–2016)singer
- Christina Perri (born 1986)American singer-songwriter
People named Christina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Christina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Christina is most concentrated in Alaska (1.7×), California (1.4×), Maryland (1.4×), Florida (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1985
The most popular girls’ names the year Christina peaked:
Christina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria girls | Christina | 12,799 | 6th |
| Denmark girls | Christina | 9,830 | 1st |
| France girls | Christina | 7,855 | 168th |
| Norway girls | Christina | 4,699 | 12th |
| Ireland girls | Christina | 4,515 | 40th |
| England and Wales girls | Christina | 3,204 | 172nd |
| New Zealand girls | Christina | 2,675 | 47th |
| Scotland girls | Christina | 2,334 | 53rd |
| Belgium girls | Christina | 465 | 336th |
| Switzerland girls | Christina | 345 | 231st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Christina | 168 | 104th |
| Poland girls | Christina | 73 birth registrations | 370th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Christina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Christina | 296 | 0.024% | 175th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Christina | 45 | 0.010% | 334th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Christina | 3 | 0.005% | 161st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Christina | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Christina is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.03% of children were given it – 90 of them.
Christina: rank by region
In 2023, Christina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Christina | 882 | 5 |
In 2023, Christina was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Christina | 318 | 2 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Christina appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (218th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Christina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 7 | 506th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Christina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Christina | 29,142 | 99,129 |
| Finland girls | Christina | 1,346 | 6,993 |
| the Netherlands boys | Christina | — | 1,801 |
Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,801 who carry it, fewer than five go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Christina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 746 women called Christina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Christina | 86 | 0.137 | 582 |
| Málaga | Christina | 75 | 0.082 | 833 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Christina | 43 | 0.078 | 1,143 |
| Palmas, Las | Christina | 40 | 0.068 | 1,364 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Christina | 66 | 0.064 | 1,125 |
| Tarragona | Christina | 16 | 0.037 | 1,595 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Christina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.