In 2025, 128 US girls were named Cristina, making it the 1,622nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 236 places from #1,386 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 163 girls named Cristina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #163, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,763, in 1990. For comparison, it was #1,107 in 2015 and #924 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cristina in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 8 babies. In all, 52,698 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 15,174 babies named Cristina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,767 US girls were named Cristina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 240. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,557 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cristina ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #925 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), Christina (481,707 babies since 1880), Kristin (180,951 babies since 1880) and Kristina (137,118 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cristianna and Crystiana are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan, Galician, Italian, Romanian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.