Cristian

What Cristian means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #362 vs #1,197 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cristian?

US: Falling: down from #271 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #950 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 2,847 boys got the name (#130 that year). First in the US records in 1960.

How common

• About 1 in 1,885 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,331 baby boys in England and Wales 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 NM (1.69 per 1,000 boys), CA (1.08 per 1,000 boys), MD (1.0 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Cristian is #362 in the US and #1197 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Cristian 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

• Kristian184 US · 37 E&W
• Krystian20 US · 3 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 Cristian

Boys

• Alexis#513“helper, defender”^*
• Collin#493Diminutive of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Christian#96Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 16,059 babies; 3,641 in 2025
• Andy#565Diminutive of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Nicolas#177Variant of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Colin#343Short form of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*

For a sister

• Alexis#554“helper, defender”^*
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Karina#749Form of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Selena#268“heavenly”^*
• Angelina#347“a female resident of Los Angeles”^*

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 Cristian’s. Rank is US 2025.