Cristina
The girl's name Cristina has been in the national records since 1906, with 52,698 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,622nd. About 50,000 Cristinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cristina boys named Cristina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 52,698
- Estimated living today
- 50,000
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 165th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,622nd
- First recorded
- 1906
- Girls / boys
- 52,428 / 270
How old the living Cristinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 52,698 babies given the name since 1906, about 50,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 4,300 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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 Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cristinas
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953)president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
- Infanta Cristina of Spain (born 1965)Spanish royal
- Maria Cristina of Savoy, Queen of the Two Sicilies (1812–1836)Queen Consort of the Two Sicilies (1812-1836) and Blessed
- Cristina Scabbia (born 1972)Italian singer
- Cristina Neagu (born 1988)Romanian handball player
- Cristina Peri Rossi (born 1941)Uruguayan writer
- Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso (1808–1871)Italian noblewoman, patriot, editor and philanthropist
- Cristina Scarlat (born 1981)Moldovan singer
People named Cristina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cristina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cristina is most concentrated in California (2.9×), Texas (2.3×), Florida (2.3×), Nevada (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Cristina peaked:
Cristina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Cristina | 23,225 | 12th |
| Italy girls | Cristina | 13,203 | — |
| France girls | Cristina | 2,915 | 192nd |
| England and Wales girls | Cristina | 536 | 1,021st |
| Norway girls | Cristina | 406 | 257th |
| Italy boys | Cristina | 185 | — |
| Belgium girls | Cristina | 148 | 788th |
| Ireland girls | Cristina | 73 | 369th |
| Scotland girls | Cristina | 62 | 408th |
| Poland girls | Cristina | 27 birth registrations | 363rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Cristina | 3 | 432nd |
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.
Cristina: rank by region
In 2016, Cristina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Cristina | 437 | 6 |
In 2016, Cristina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Cristina | 9 | 2 |
In 2023, Cristina was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Cristina | 318 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, 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.
Cristina 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Cristina | 128 | 638 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Cristina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 226,072 women called Cristina 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valladolid | Cristina | 2,987 | 11.012 | 11 |
| Guadalajara | Cristina | 1,500 | 10.672 | 6 |
| Madrid | Cristina | 39,509 | 10.660 | 5 |
| Barcelona | Cristina | 32,252 | 10.598 | 8 |
| Ciudad Real | Cristina | 2,592 | 10.396 | 14 |
| Girona | Cristina | 4,264 | 10.298 | 9 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Cristina 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.