Cristina

“Variant of Christina — Follower of Christ” — Ancient Greek, via Latin and French origin

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

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

Around the world: about 1 in 5,700 girls in Switzerland (2024) · about 1 in 18,000 girls in Canada (2024).

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

Famous Cristinas

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
Cristina Scabbia — Italian singer
Cristina Neagu — Romanian handball player
Cristina Peri Rossi — Uruguayan writer (born 1941)
Cristina Scarlat — Moldovan singer

In stories & tradition

Cristina Yang — Grey's Anatomy
Cristina Rose Scofield — Prison Break
Cristina — Eduardo e Cristina

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 scientist (1732-1797).

Similar names: Christina · Adrienne · Christine · Katrina · Sonia · Krystal

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