Fewer than five US girls were named Christiane in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,266, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 87. For comparison, it was #14,909 in 2015 and #2,132 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christiane in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 5 babies. In all, 2,263 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 628 babies named Christiane.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 20 US girls were named Christiane; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 7.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christine (588,495 babies since 1880), Christina (481,707 babies since 1880), Kristin (180,951 babies since 1880) and Kristina (137,118 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, French and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.