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Cristina

Girl's name · #1622 in the US (2025) · 80s wave

Popularity over time

Cristina reached #163 in 1986 and has faded to #1622 since. About 52,000 girls have carried it since 1906.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 12 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#144 in Mexico (2024) · #195 in Italy (2024) · #216 in Ecuador (2025) · #2,203 in Sweden (2025) · #2,475 in Canada (2025) · #2,788 in England & Wales (2025) · #4,048 in France (2025) · #1,424 in Austria (2024) · #771 in Poland (2023) · #905 in Ireland (2022) · #87 in Spain (2021) · #203 in Puerto Rico (2021) and 5 more.

Famous Cristinas

• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 (born 1953)
• Cristina Scabbia — Italian singer (born 1972)
• Cristina Neagu — Romanian handball player (born 1988)
• Cristina Vee — American voice actress (born 1987)
• Cristina Bucșa — Spanish tennis player (born 1998)

In stories & tradition

• Cristina Yang — Fictional character in Grey's Anatomy
• Cristina Rose Scofield^nl — Prison Break (TV series)
• Cristina — Operatic character in the opera Eduardo e Cristina by Gioachino Rossini; Carlo's daughter, secret wife of Eduardo

What Cristinas become

Among 1,832 notable people named Cristina:

Scientists & scholars appear 1.38× more often than among typical names — e.g. Cristina Roccati, Italian physicist and poet (1732–1797).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Christina (#770) and Kristina (#1724), Cristina would rank around #496 with about 600 births last year — the newborns split about 59/21/20 across Christina, Cristina, and Kristina.

Similar names: Kristina · Adrienne · Krystal · Katrina · Tia · Christiana

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