Christina

What Christina means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 16,600 babies; 352 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Christina?

US: Falling: down from #333 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #487 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1978, when 16,367 girls got the name (#15 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,566 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 7,915 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls 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 NV (0.76 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.51 per 1,000 girls), AZ (0.5 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Christina is #770 in the US and #1051 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Christina were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Kristina

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

Nicknames

• Chris
• Chrissie
• Chrissy
• Christie
• Christy
• Kristi
• Kristie
• Kristy
• Tina

Listed on Wiktionary under “pet forms”.

If you like Christina

Girls

• Nicole#382Form of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Melissa#419“bee, honey, or honeybee”^*
• Kathryn#729Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*
• Catherine#313possibly “each of the two”^*

For a brother

• Steven#271“crown, wreath”^*
• Timothy#203“to honour + god”^*
• Dennis#707“follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”^*
• Christopher#68“carrier of Christ”^*
• Gregory#593“watchful, vigilant”^*
• Phillip#651Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 6,047 babies; 425 in 2025

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 Christina’s. Rank is US 2025.