Christian

What Christian means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Christian yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 16,059 babies; 3,641 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Christian?

US: Falling: down from #43 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #214 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 15,824 boys got the name (#24 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 469 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,590 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (4.41 per 1,000 boys), MS (4.15 per 1,000 boys), AK (3.96 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Christian is #96 in the US and #393 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.3% of US babies named Christian were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Christiaan7 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Christian

Boys

• Collin#493Diminutive of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Andy#565Diminutive of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Alexander#30“to defend + man”^*
• Jason#165“I heal”^*
• Alex#232Short form of Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Hector#409“holding fast”^*

For a sister

• Alexis#554“helper, defender”^*
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Karina#749Form of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Christian’s. Rank is US 2025.