Kristine
Kristine is a girl's name that peaked in 1970, when it was the 109th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,211th. About 76,000 Kristines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kristine boys named Kristine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 84,514
- Estimated living today
- 76,000
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 109th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,211th
- First recorded
- 1916
- Girls / boys
- 84,329 / 185
How old the living Kristines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 84,514 babies given the name since 1916, about 76,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kristines
- Kristine Froseth (born 1995)American actress
- Kristine Lilly (born 1971)American soccer player
- Kristine Bonnevie (1872–1948)Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor
- Liv Kristine (born 1976)Norwegian singer
- Kristine Sutherland (born 1955)American actress
- Kristīne Opolais (born 1979)Latvian opera singer
- Kristine Lunde-Borgersen (born 1980)Norwegian handball player
- Kristine Breistøl (born 1993)Norwegian handball player
People named Kristine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kristine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kristine is most concentrated in Wisconsin (3.4×), Minnesota (2.8×), Utah (2.3×), Iowa (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Kristine peaked:
Kristine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Kristine | 11,140 | 6th |
| Denmark girls | Kristine | 1,126 | 38th |
| England and Wales girls | Kristine | 109 | 2,969th |
| France girls | Kristine | 70 | 6,057th |
| Scotland girls | Kristine | 70 | 336th |
| Ireland girls | Kristine | 47 | 356th |
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.
Kristine 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 | Kristine | 75 | 533 |
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 Kristine lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 291 women called Kristine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rioja, La | Kristine | 9 | 0.054 | 1,181 |
| Valencia/València | Kristine | 41 | 0.029 | 1,603 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Kristine | 30 | 0.029 | 1,904 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Kristine | 14 | 0.025 | 2,578 |
| Málaga | Kristine | 20 | 0.022 | 2,049 |
| Gipuzkoa | Kristine | 8 | 0.021 | 1,994 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 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
Kristine 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.