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Christina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 352 in 2025. Its best rank was #12 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #12 in 1985; #770 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Christina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#770 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #12.
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Christina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 352 girls in 2025. Peak: #12 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 16,600 (1985).
In 2025, 352 US girls were named Christina, making it the 770th most common girls’ name of the year, down 65 places from #705 in 2024. That is 47 fewer than the 399 girls named Christina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #12, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 16,600. For comparison, it was #333 in 2015 and #165 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 65 babies with the name. In all, 481,707 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 146,852 babies named Christina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,469 US girls were named Christina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 850. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,566 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Christina ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #388 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Christine (588,495 babies since 1880), Kristin (180,951 babies since 1880), Kristina (137,118 babies since 1880) and Kristine (84,514 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Christena, Khristina and Chrystina are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chris, Chrissy, Christy, Crissy, Kris and Kristy.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Christena (2,844), Khristina (1,275), Chrystina (595), Christyna (393), Christeena (275), Christyana (247), Christana (219), Christionna (112), Christiona (109), Khrystina (94), Christinna (75), Hristina (48), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 7 | #388 | #560 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #469 | #388 |
| Arizona | 14 | #486 | #393 |
| Missouri | 12 | #488 | #300 |
| Indiana | 11 | #584 | #784 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #586 | #269 |
| Florida | 29 | #601 | #217 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #612 | #398 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #623 | #398 |
| Texas | 44 | #692 | #429 |
| Georgia | 14 | #715 | #247 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #720 | #355 |
| New York | 22 | #737 | #198 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #775 | #318 |
| Virginia | 9 | #780 | #251 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #784 | #246 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #828 | #443 |
| Michigan | 8 | #877 | #322 |
| California | 31 | #915 | #296 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,084 | #497 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,280 | #283 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,502 | #404 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 352 | #770 | — | — |
| 2024 | 399 | #705 | — | — |
| 2023 | 405 | #702 | — | — |
| 2022 | 397 | #733 | — | — |
| 2021 | 475 | #627 | — | — |
| 2020 | 481 | #607 | — | — |
| 2019 | 596 | #522 | — | — |
| 2018 | 728 | #434 | — | — |
| 2017 | 786 | #398 | — | — |
| 2016 | 850 | #389 | — | — |
| 2015 | 983 | #333 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,030 | #321 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,071 | #299 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,125 | #283 | 6 | #11,047 |
| 2011 | 1,184 | #269 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,289 | #247 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,472 | #221 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,678 | #200 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,025 | #174 | 7 | #9,949 |
| 2006 | 2,230 | #158 | 7 | #9,745 |
| 2005 | 2,452 | #134 | 9 | #7,745 |
| 2004 | 2,736 | #123 | 10 | #7,064 |
| 2003 | 3,117 | #109 | 8 | #7,977 |
| 2002 | 3,391 | #97 | 16 | #4,736 |
| 2001 | 3,742 | #80 | 10 | #6,541 |
| 2000 | 4,332 | #73 | 10 | #6,396 |
| 1999 | 4,296 | #75 | 13 | #5,085 |
| 1998 | 4,533 | #69 | 19 | #3,726 |
| 1997 | 5,182 | #62 | 13 | #4,704 |
| 1996 | 5,804 | #57 | 27 | #2,764 |
| 1995 | 6,953 | #45 | 20 | #3,326 |
| 1994 | 7,668 | #39 | 43 | #1,933 |
| 1993 | 8,289 | #35 | 59 | #1,543 |
| 1992 | 9,444 | #33 | 50 | #1,697 |
| 1991 | 10,564 | #31 | 55 | #1,559 |
| 1990 | 11,927 | #25 | 59 | #1,467 |
| 1989 | 13,141 | #23 | 129 | #887 |
| 1988 | 12,954 | #22 | 94 | #1,004 |
| 1987 | 13,816 | #20 | 85 | #1,031 |
| 1986 | 14,384 | #19 | 91 | #959 |
| 1985 | 16,600 | #12 | 86 | #987 |
| 1984 | 14,705 | #20 | 87 | #945 |
| 1983 | 15,357 | #16 | 68 | #1,080 |
| 1982 | 14,518 | #19 | 67 | #1,117 |
| 1981 | 14,392 | #17 | 67 | #1,112 |
| 1980 | 16,141 | #15 | 70 | #1,081 |
| 1979 | 16,454 | #14 | 61 | #1,157 |
| 1978 | 16,367 | #15 | 85 | #939 |
| 1977 | 14,501 | #16 | 53 | #1,213 |
| 1976 | 14,033 | #14 | 53 | #1,180 |
| 1975 | 12,980 | #12 | 48 | #1,230 |
| 1974 | 10,849 | #16 | 51 | #1,153 |
| 1973 | 10,888 | #16 | 48 | #1,186 |
| 1972 | 10,172 | #26 | 36 | #1,419 |
| 1971 | 9,915 | #30 | 33 | #1,496 |
| 1970 | 9,588 | #35 | 39 | #1,337 |
| 1969 | 9,323 | #37 | 38 | #1,282 |
| 1968 | 8,016 | #44 | 31 | #1,398 |
| 1967 | 6,600 | #53 | 22 | #1,664 |
| 1966 | 5,341 | #67 | 19 | #1,761 |
| 1965 | 4,979 | #74 | 9 | #2,818 |
| 1964 | 4,701 | #88 | 9 | #2,892 |
| 1963 | 4,028 | #107 | 12 | #2,435 |
| 1962 | 3,624 | #124 | 11 | #2,533 |
| 1961 | 3,467 | #132 | 6 | #3,703 |
| 1960 | 2,711 | #154 | 5 | #4,125 |
| 1959 | 2,348 | #165 | 5 | #4,080 |
| 1958 | 2,309 | #165 | 6 | #3,600 |
| 1957 | 2,251 | #170 | 8 | #3,058 |
| 1956 | 2,112 | #173 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,811 | #184 | 5 | #3,966 |
| 1954 | 1,387 | #214 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,772 | #177 | — | — |
| 1952 | 2,169 | #155 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,960 | #158 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,725 | #165 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,832 | #160 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,493 | #184 | 5 | #3,757 |
| 1947 | 1,284 | #207 | — | — |
| 1946 | 964 | #231 | — | — |
| 1945 | 776 | #238 | — | — |
| 1944 | 760 | #237 | — | — |
| 1943 | 580 | #288 | — | — |
| 1942 | 433 | #335 | — | — |
| 1941 | 373 | #339 | — | — |
| 1940 | 344 | #350 | — | — |
| 1939 | 262 | #418 | — | — |
| 1938 | 291 | #393 | — | — |
| 1937 | 250 | #410 | — | — |
| 1936 | 253 | #402 | — | — |
| 1935 | 274 | #383 | — | — |
| 1934 | 284 | #376 | — | — |
| 1933 | 271 | #393 | — | — |
| 1932 | 251 | #411 | — | — |
| 1931 | 292 | #377 | — | — |
| 1930 | 317 | #386 | — | — |
| 1929 | 333 | #365 | 6 | #3,622 |
| 1928 | 371 | #352 | — | — |
| 1927 | 342 | #372 | — | — |
| 1926 | 349 | #357 | — | — |
| 1925 | 375 | #350 | — | — |
| 1924 | 385 | #345 | — | — |
| 1923 | 357 | #351 | — | — |
| 1922 | 372 | #334 | — | — |
| 1921 | 383 | #337 | — | — |
| 1920 | 384 | #333 | — | — |
| 1919 | 386 | #321 | — | — |
| 1918 | 346 | #353 | — | — |
| 1917 | 361 | #325 | — | — |
| 1916 | 346 | #326 | — | — |
| 1915 | 339 | #325 | — | — |
| 1914 | 291 | #306 | — | — |
| 1913 | 216 | #326 | — | — |
| 1912 | 202 | #322 | — | — |
| 1911 | 148 | #325 | — | — |
| 1910 | 130 | #348 | — | — |
| 1909 | 120 | #331 | — | — |
| 1908 | 118 | #326 | — | — |
| 1907 | 128 | #307 | — | — |
| 1906 | 120 | #305 | — | — |
| 1905 | 118 | #308 | — | — |
| 1904 | 123 | #290 | — | — |
| 1903 | 90 | #328 | — | — |
| 1902 | 111 | #301 | — | — |
| 1901 | 110 | #283 | — | — |
| 1900 | 132 | #283 | — | — |
| 1899 | 112 | #270 | — | — |
| 1898 | 131 | #263 | — | — |
| 1897 | 120 | #259 | — | — |
| 1896 | 118 | #264 | — | — |
| 1895 | 126 | #249 | — | — |
| 1894 | 121 | #245 | — | — |
| 1893 | 139 | #219 | — | — |
| 1892 | 127 | #230 | — | — |
| 1891 | 124 | #215 | — | — |
| 1890 | 139 | #200 | — | — |
| 1889 | 142 | #190 | — | — |
| 1888 | 114 | #215 | — | — |
| 1887 | 92 | #217 | — | — |
| 1886 | 98 | #199 | — | — |
| 1885 | 107 | #178 | — | — |
| 1884 | 83 | #209 | — | — |
| 1883 | 69 | #211 | — | — |
| 1882 | 64 | #209 | — | — |
| 1881 | 82 | #163 | — | — |
| 1880 | 65 | #187 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).