In 2025, 118 US girls were named Kristina, making it the 1,724th most common girls’ name of the year, up 17 places from #1,741 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 117 girls named Kristina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #57, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,566. For comparison, it was #741 in 2015 and #483 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristina in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 137,118 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 46,126 babies named Kristina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,903 US girls were named Kristina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 320. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,621 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kristina ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #971 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 Kristine (84,514 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristianna, Kristena and Kristyna are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Christina, Kris, Krissy and Tina.
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