Fewer than five US girls were named Christin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #286, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 926. For comparison, it was #6,071 in 2015 and #3,715 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christin in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1931 with 5 babies. In all, 12,217 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 5,547 babies named Christin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 102 US girls were named Christin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 18.
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). Rarer spellings such as Khrystin are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English, German and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.