Christina

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Christina is ranked 704th among girls in 2024 (398 births). Its best rank was 12th, in 1975, 1985.

Rank in 2024: #704down 1 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3980.02% of girls
Peak year: 198516,600 births
Best rank: #12first in 1975
Since 1880: 481,348people given the name

Babies named Christina, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

479,359 girls have been named Christina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 16,600 births — 0.96% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 398 births in 2024, against 16,600 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1980s alone account for 30%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 39 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,989 boys have also been given it, 0.41% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Christina
1880s	916
1890s	1,257
1900s	1,170
1910s	2,765
1920s	3,651
1930s	2,745
1940s	8,840
1950s	19,845
1960s	52,788
1970s	125,750
1980s	146,011
1990s	74,659
2000s	27,173
2010s	9,636
2020s	2,153

In 1985, its biggest year

Christina was the 12th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.

Names that rose and fell with Christina

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.